The numerous workings at Hengistbury Head, Boscombe beach and Durley Chine were showing no signs of activity today (small wonder, as it's a Sunday), so I decide to use the continuing fine weather to cycle the seven miles of beach front promenade purely for the exercise.
My first stop was Alum Chine, Poole bay, and it was there that I shoot today's image of Old Harry Rock (far left of image), just over 4 miles distant. These chalk sea stacks form the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and is the Purbeck equivalent of The Needles at the western end of the Isle of Wight, which is part of the same chalk ridge where the sea broke through to form the bay, some 10,000 years ago.
The word 'chine' is peculiar to Dorset and the Isle of Wight, and means "deep, narrow ravine cut through soft rocks by a water course descending steeply to the sea". A rather long winded meaning for such a short word.
300mm f/4D AF-S Nikkor. 1/640 second at f/5.6. ISO 200.
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