What's over the top? This is what Hermes and Debbie asked when I showed this photo on 'Pictures Just Pictures'.
. . . This is what you see when you come over the brow on this stretch of path.
Portland Harbour - where the sailing events for the 2012 Olympics will be taking place - and Portland in the distance.
Not that I recommend you take your eye off the path, or you'll be tumbling down here.
Over and over, people make new paths as the old ones crumble away;
higher, then higher . . .
So that's what I do now - take the higher path, in case that next edge is ready to tip.
There are lots of little coves below; each one protected from the waves by boulders. They loop in and out like a lace edging.
Gorse burns - and there's a lot of gorse round here. This fire was recent; the smell of burning so strong it may still have been smoldering. On the way back, I met women bringing buckets of water to put out a smaller fire before it spread.
This is another photo from Pictures Just Pictures, 'Rusted Rails Near Ferrybridge'. This is where the path I was on meets with the route of the old line to Portland. When I first walked here, the tracks had been lifted but there was nothing but broken stone under foot. It has a tarmac surface now and lots of people walk or cycle in and out of town along it. Great! Except I feel a bit churlish. It was nice to be here when hardly anyone else was!
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THIS IS THE LINK TO A CLICKABLE PICTURE OF PORTLAND HARBOUR FOR SKYWATCH
http://thethirdcolumn.blogspot.com/2008/08/across-portland-harbour.html
I can see myself sunbathing on a towel in front of that view. Nice photo.
There is so much to see in this lovely photo. I was mesmerized--thanks for sharing!
That sky is HUGE! Look at how tiny the boats look in comparison... very, very nice!
Wonderful skyscape. Such a vast vista.
Lovely view and sky.
My what a great big sky you have!
The better to share the view with I am sure.
Fantastic sweeping photo, thanks for sharing!
I feel the urge for a mr whippy coming one!
Lovely - I know it well - was born in Weymouth and still visit occasionally.
Hello Koala.
The shore along here is lined by little coves. Very peaceful.
Hello Nonizamboni.
It's interesting how such an apparently empty view can contain so much!
Hello Ms Toast Burner (what a wonderful name!) . . .
At first, I was surprised by your comment. Isn't the sky always the same size and always huge?
Then I realised how used I am to having an unobstructed view of it and how, in a forest or a city, one sees little scraps of it . . . instead of more or less all of it at once.
Comments like yours help me value the ordinary by reminding me that one person's 'ordinary' is another person's 'exception'.
Tara R.
Yes, a large vista, indeed . . . and more to the left and more to the right . . . but not the biggest round here!
Thanks J.Bar.
Thanks Regina. I'm glad you like the view across Portland Harbour.
With a view like this, the sea and the sky often merge.
Hello Uberrhund.
I'm really pleased to be sharing this view in a blog - but if we all tried to look at it in 'real life' it would get a bit crowed . . . then it wouldn't be the same at all!
Hello J.
No icecreams on the beach I'm afraid. It's all little 'Famous Five' style coves along here.
There's a park with ice-creams not too far away though - with the ruins of a Henry lll castle in it. Not bad, eh?
Hello Strawberry Ann Jam. (Another good name!)
How nice to be visited by someone from Weymouth!
Do you miss it or is your new coast a fine compensation?
This looks like Sunday afternoon joy :)
Ooh, landscape mode, cool!
Hello Bim.
It is. It's an any day . . . any time of day . . . any weather joy.
Hello Monica.
Landscape for a seascape . . .
That's very beautiful and soft, staying within one color : the blue (with of course white), eye-candy.
Hello Hildegarde.
Sorry to take so long to reply.
Glad you like the view across Portland Harbour.
I like photos which are based on one colour. I think this springs from my first love - which is black and white photography. I'm not quite sure why I don't do more of that!
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