Day 3.
Weymouth to Lulworth Cove
The morning began with a pre-breakfast trip to the launderette to refresh our walking clothes. We are carrying only enough clothes for 2 days at a time. We learned the trick of finding a launderette en route when doing our Totnes to Lands End trek in 2014.
Today's walk began with a reasonably steady climb out of Weymouth Bay. Impressive scenes of recent and not-so-recent cliff falls were a recurring theme of the day, reminding us of how the relentless process of erosion is constantly dynamically changing the coastline. This made quite a stark change from yesterday where the offshore Chesil Bank had protected most of the shoreline we had been walking along.
For lunch we stopped on the beach just before arriving at Ringstead, and then found the only shop on the path and bought an ice cream.
The climbs and the descents got increasingly steep as we made our way closer to Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove.
At Durdle Door we paused on the cliff top to have the rest of our lunch. Being a beautiful Saturday the honeypot site of Durdle Door was absolutely packed.
The final half an hour of walking to Lulworth Cove felt a bit like we had joined a mass--pilgrimage or large coach tour. The path was wide but it still felt crowded.
Arriving at lulworth we found the hotel for the night and following a small problem with their hot water we got upgraded from the "attic room" to the special suite with its own private garden (and plenty of hot water). Showers were much-needed following a busy and hot walk. We also had to get aftersun lotion to treat our angry calves (the bit of our bodies we had forgotten to apply suncream to.
In total it was just over 11 miles, not including a small loop around the cove and neighbouring Star Hole.
We had a delicious dinner at Rudds and now very happily tired ready for what looks like another fairly challenging day tomorrow.
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