When the tide is out it feels like walking on the moon. A special place that you can’t normally walk on. Rockpool observation is best done on a beautiful day like this one. You can wander here undisturbed and provided your shoes are reasonably waterproof and with good grip, it’s easy going. If I lived in Lyme Regis I would make rockpooling my new religion and I would worship everyday.
The view is stunning, the tide is so far out, you could wander safely here for a long time!
The walk down to the beach is perfection on a March day like this!
I love the shades of blue and green in one small camera click.
And then we come to the new religion that absorbs so completely.
Driftwood trees ‘growing’ in town.
I do love things ‘out of their element’ – the harbour waits for the tide to return.
So, if you spend your whole life fishing, you could potentially live forever…. yes, I think this is an excellent concept.
Lyme Regis is mostly famous for it’s fossils and in the small high street it is easier to buy a fossil or an ice cream than anything else, although I did find a great tin full of buttons – if you don’t already know about my obsession with buttons …. hmm, either count yourself very lucky that you don’t have to listen to me talk about buttons, or visit my other website
theoldbuttonshop.co.uk, it’s a pretty dusty old shop so mind the cobwebs! You can also click on the shop picture below to visit the eBay store. Good luck 🙂
Mary Anning who died in 1847 at the age of 47 is one of the reasons for the fame of Lyme Regis and it’s fossils. She collected fossils and sold them to earn a very meagre living. She was internationally known but often never fully credited for her work because being a woman, she was not allowed to join the Geological Society of London.
Mary Anning gets the last laugh with a bronze statue, while the guys who thought they were so important in the Geological Society of London?? Well, no one knows who they were. Her findings contributed to significant changes in thinking about prehistoric life. She discovered the first correctly identified ichthyosaur when she was only 12 years old.
Advice for Lyme Regis: Stray off the Main Streets! All this and ….
Seriously! How can you NOT fall in love with a place that has a whole shop for Seaweed Art! Perfection.
Ever onwards with courage people. Enjoy Dorset.
