On July 30th, 2016; I visited the incredible rock formations and stunning scenery around Lulworth Cove, England.   

     Pictured below, the oyster-shaped cove was created over thousands of years, as the sea broke through the Purbeck and Portland limestone
cliffs and began to erode the softer clay and chalk behind.

     On one side of the cove, the Middle and Upper Purbeck rock strata are contorted and folded into the “Lulworth Crumples,” one of which is in the back of the cliff at adjacent Stair Hole.

     Pictured below, I’m standing near Durdle Dor, (a few kilometers west of Lulworth Cove).  Durdle is truly one of nature’s marvels, and one of the most photographed subjects along Dorset’s Jurassic Coast.

     This giant limestone arch straddles the sea at the eastern end of the Durdle Dor Cove. Carved by the pounding southwesterly waves, the softer rocks have eroded, leaving the more resistant Portland stone standing firm. These rocks were laid down between 135 and 195 million years ago, in the Jurassic period when southern England was under a tropical sea.