3 men on a walk 2015: Day 1 of the South West Coast Path

Around Portland Bill

The 3 Amigo's annual walk this year is to take in some of the amazing coastal scenery from the South West Coast Path trail.

We drove down to Weymouth today and booked into "The Royal Oak" pub which is our stay-over point for the next 3 days at lunch-time. This gave us time to head out to the Isle of Portland, park up and take in some of the delights of Portland Bill.

Portland Stone is known throughout the world and some of the UK's finest buildings are made from it. The quarries that mine this hard sandstone are everywhere but we were amazed to see so many actually mining the stone right at the cliff edge. In bygone days it appeared the stone was lowered down on makeshift cranes directly to boats moored under the cliff.

The only disappointment today was that we were promised sun but got sea mist instead! Still it did clear towards the end of the walk and whilst it masked some of the long distant views along the coast it didn't hinder us too much.