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The honey pot site

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Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, landscapeCertain iconic locations for landscape photography are known as ‘honeypot’ sites. Kimmeridge Bay on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast is one such site. I visited it for the first time on holiday this summer. Sadly, I was not treated to one of the spectacular sunsets one sees so often captured at this location but I made the best of what I had. There was only one other photographer on the beach, a local, who told me that if there had been the merest whiff of a good sunset the beach would have been heaving with tripods etc. Perhaps I was lucky after all.

Lovers on the Cobb

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Kissing couple on the Cobb at Lyme Regis

I wonder if he has just proposed?

A couple kiss on the Cobb, Lyme Regis’s iconic harbour wall.  Many writers have been inspired by this landmark, including Jane Austen who featured it in Persuasion and John Fowles in The French Lieutenant’s Woman.  The scene where the heroine (played by Meryl Streep in the film) walks to the end of the Cobb during a storm has made its way into movie legend.  Perhaps this couple are fans.

The Cobb

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Our summer holiday this year will be spent at Lyme Regis, a lovely little town on the coast of Dorset. It is steeped in history and features in Jane Austen’s Persuasion:

the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the Walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and company…are what the stranger’s eye will seek

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The Cobb is Lyme Regis’s famous harbour wall. In Persuasion, one of the characters takes a tumble off the Cobb. In a later novel, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles immortalised “quite simply the most beautiful sea rampart on the south coast of England”.

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Lyme Regis is on The Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site for its wealth of fossils from the Jurassic period. It was here that Mary Anning (1799-1847) discovered, at the tender age of twelve, the first complete ichthyosaur. She went on to become a renowned palaeontologist when the science was in its infancy. Lyme Regis Museum, a fascinating place to visit in its own right, is built on the site of Mary’s home.

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