As usual the blue trace is of the route walked in a clockwise direction

The Isle of Wight was very clear today

The view west from Handfast Point (Old Harry Rocks)

The ridge which heads from Ballard Point towards Corfe Castle has magnificent views on both sides, here of Poole Harbour, Brownsea Island and Bournemouth.

Lovely open grassland make for easy walking

A panorama shot of Swanage Bay with the town to the right

The remains of an old building hide under the trees in the valley near Fishing Barrow

Agglestone Rock, said to have been thrown by a giant from the Isle of Wight

In Studland Church cemetery is the grave of Sgt William Lawrence who surely must have been the basis for the Sharpe series of novels by Bernard Cornwell

John tells us the story of Sgt Lawrence