Action Coastguards.

So Tom and I were tasked to Durlston Castle to look for a missing Paddle-boarder at sea. We get stuck behind a security fence and need to get through. It's an 'Action Man Moment'.

Do we:-

(a) Use the key we don't have for the locked gate?
(b) The code for the combination lock? .....that code that we have forgotten.
(c) The 'Magic Key' ? (A sledgehammer) ....and get into trouble for busting things.
(d) Use bionic powers .....that we don't have.
(e) Use Tom's Bus Pass.

No luckily Tom and I are dead slim so like action we slipped between the security fence posts and run down to the coast.

He's not there, run back up the hill,

Squeeze through the security fence again,

Run to truck.

Drive to Anvil Point,

Run around a bit, he's not there.

Drive back to Durlston Castle,

Do some more running, suddenly using our action man swivelling eyes he's there!

Wow found him.

Argh....No radio coverage!

Run around a bit more to get coverage.

Get in contact with Lifeboat.

Lifeboat finds paddle-boarder.

Lose radio coverage, so run around a bit.

Run back to the truck via the security fence for the third time of asking.

Go home for tea.


All in a days work for 'Action Coastguards'.

And no jokes from the team that the one at the front in Navy Uniform looks like our very own Coastgaurd Steve Lacey.

......actually it really does.