Busy Station

Busy day yesterday with the station open day, and a chance to welcome some old friends.  I'm neither old nor friendly, so I didn't go myself, but I hear it all went well.

A local quizmaster, photographer and purveyor of kitchenware took this photo, so I nicked it and popped it on our site.  Thanks Julian.

There really is some stunning natural beauty and magnificence here in Purbeck, although as I said before, I didn't go yesterday. Instead, whilst you're here, why not take a look at Julian's Purbeck Footprints website, full of some stunning images of this place we are fortunate to live and work in.  His 2013 calendars are available and if you buy now, you get 14 months' use instead of 12.  Bargain!

After this shameless plug, I expect an arty sunset silhouette shot on next year's calendar with the lighthouse in the background, and the local Coastguard team in the foreground setting up for a cliff rescue.  The juxtaposition of natural beauty and......natural beauty!

Purbeck Footprints - The Adder

More cracking shots from local photographer Julian Sawyer. What I like about Julian's blog, other than the obvious quality and compositions of his photos, is that he is able to capture the abundance of local wildlife half of which I didn't know was here.

The snake photo is a cracker; i'm defo wearing my boots next time I'm up at Durlston.

Purbeck Footprints

Our 'patch' must have one of the most impressive and varied bits of scenery along the whole coastline with its Jurassic Coast, Purbeck Hills and Studland Heath.

If you haven't had chance to see much of it yourself you could do worse than check out the local wildlife photography blog Purbeck Footprints. It's run and updated daily by Swanage resident Julian Sawyer who takes all the photos, writes the witty captions, reads our blog and is generally an all round good bloke. Its a wonder he ever gets time to go to work.

I'm not sure why its called Purbeck Footprints because that's about the only thing you won't find. Well, only if he's too late and the animal's run off. But seriously, the photography really is first class and well worth a look.