Navitus Bay...

Many, as in lots, as in a total visual dominance along the horizon, of wind turbines are proposed to be erected in the distance, here. A UNESCO World Heritage Site (The Purbeck Jurassic Coast).

THAT'S like having a whole line of them in the Grand Canyon, or powering the Taj Majal. Yes, sickening. See prosed project - www.navitusbaywindpark.co.uk/project.aspx

And this isn't just pie in the sky, it's got legs, big powerful ones and it is likely to get permission, albeit on a reduced size. The insanity is that it is job creation that is a major force in the argument. Hello! This is area lives and breathes almost totally from tourism. The ratio of those created and those lost, because many will just not want to come to place that is no longer unspoilt, special, chaste and unsullied from obvious manmade intrusions. Seabirds nest in profusion on those chalk stacks too (or they used, none today, could be wrong time of year - me, no expert!

Oh yes, WHAT a difference a day makes; a twelve mile walk, climb, scramble, from Sandbanks Ferry to Swanage. One of the best, most exhilarating yet accessible pleasures one can do, for free. The views are 360 degrees, over Poole Harbour, over to the Isle of Wight and a whole wealth of detail that is the whole Bournemouth conurbation. It was also still a bit (quite a lot, actually) blowy, with quite a cool edge, making getting very near to the edges of these glistening white chalk pinnacles and cliffs a little unnerving, but a photographer's got to do what a photographer's got to do. 10mm ultrawide means you have to get close, to peer over the edge...

Behind me is the famous Old Harry Rocks and which was definitely going to be my Blip but the quality of the light simply got to me here on this one. Note also, how rapeseed doesn't just grow in fields, as crops. It was quite abundant, as were carpets of more usual spring/summer wild flowers.

In LARGE, you can just see people, walking along the top. Mere specks, compared to these magnificent cliffs.

In the far distance is my end point, Swanage. Nine hours in the sunshine plus about 6 hours and 6 miles walk yesterday in THAT  weather yesterday, means it's bedtime. Huge THANKS for everything on that wild weather Blip