Swanage

This is Swanage, the second beach that I went to in two days. I believe that these two days were the entire two days of Summer in England this year, and also happened to coincide with Bank Holiday weekend, therefore, even though this was about 5.30pm, the beaches were quite busy. This beach was a lot nicer than the one at Southend-on-Sea, but still too cold for my liking!

The row of huts that you can see along the bottom of the second photo are actually private beach huts, some of which are privately owned and some of which you can rent. They apparently cost about £30 000 to buy, despite not having electricity (they have a gas BBQ kind of thing I believe).

You can also see in the photo where we had dinner. It's a pub called The Mowlem, and we ate overlooking the water. It's the raised building at the end of the beach in the second photo.

If you open the next photo up to its full size, you can actually see the Isle of Wight. You can sort of see the white cliffs in the middle of the ocean. I'm not sure if that's the best visibility you can get, but it was still impressive to see.