7th August 2008
I hope Bob’s wooly outfit is waterproof…. Durdle Door is reall impressive, equally as impressive is the less talked about Man-of-War Bay. We parked in the Durdle Door Holiday Park car park, there’s a ten minute walk that leads down to the beach, however the steps are a bit steep. The weather was really nice, so armed with swimming costumes etc we headed down to see whether Durdle Door was as good as people have said – It didn’t fail to impress us.
Durdle Door from the cliff above - don't slip Bob!
However we actually decided to go down to the beach on the side which didn’t give you a view of durdle door, there were 2 sets of steps that went down each side of the viewpoint. Man-of-War bay is amazing – the water was so clear and once you got in it wasn’t as cold as was expected. Our son made a cool discovery in the bay whilst diving under the water.
Found in the sea (not by Bob - he says diving will ruin his hair).
We threw it back into the sea and hopefully someone else will discover it.
The only downside of the beach is that it’s pebbly – which was uncomforatble to walk on, but that was definetly compensated for by the sea.
Having left Durdle Door we were in need of food and drink – so we headed to Worth Matravers in search of the fabled ‘Square and Compass’ We parked in the public car park 100 yards along the Corfe Castle road which has a £1 honesty box. The only food you can get here is pasties – which were like traditional Cornish pasties we paid £2.60 ea and they were served until they run out and on paper plates. The beers and ciders here taste great and there’s plenty of choice. you queue up in the corridor and served through a serving hatch. We sat inside, the room was really nice and a cool retreat on a hot day there also seemed to be plenty of wasps eager to share food and drink if you sat outside. There was a small museum attached, but we didn’t get to visit it.
Square and compass - pub and museum
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