The Dawn Treader: Richard's cabin

Lyme Regis harbour (The Cobb)

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This album is of photos taken on a holiday with Toni to Lyme Regis. We enjoyed relaxing, doing a lot of scenic walking, and good meals in the evening.

This is a photo from the Hotel Alexandra in which we stayed, looking down to Lyme Regis Harbour (The Cobb) which was used in the filming of The French Lieutenant's Woman some years ago.

This area is named the Jurassic Coast because of the age of the rock and the presence of many fossils. Note that the heads of the lamp posts are in the shape of Ammonites!

March 2008.

Ammonites

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Fossils on the shore, Lyme Regis, March 2008

Coast near Lulworth, Dorset

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March 2008

Durdle Door

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Near Lulworth, Dorset, March 2008.

Wave patterns

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Near Durdle Door, Lulworth, Dorset, March 2008.

Portland Harbour

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I took this photo during a very windy stop for a picnic lunch with Toni, on a cliff-top promontory west of Lulworth. The significance of Portland is that it is in this harbour that I completed my PADI Open Water Diver qualification last cold December!

March 2008.

Silver Well, Cerne Abbas

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This spring, reputedly visited by St Augustine, is part of the ruined Cerne Abbey at Cerne Abbas, Dorset. March 2008.

We saw lots of gorgeous primroses while walking

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March 2008

Moonlight

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A near full moon reflected prettily on the sea, taken from the Alexandra Hotel, Lyme Regis, March 2008.

Cerne Abbas Giant

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This is the famous giant at Cerne Abbas, Dorset, made by exposing the chalk hill under the grass. Typically this method has been used to create the many White Horses scattered over the chalk downlands of southern England.

Opinions differ as to whether it is 1500 years old and a depiction of the Roman God Hercules, or created by an angry farmer about 350 years ago as a caricature of Oliver Cromwell. (No local documents before 1694 refer to the figure.)

Here's a better photo from the tourist office if you can't make out all the detail.