The GPS trace of the walk as recorded on my phone shown in blue

We walked in an anticlockwise direction.

T brighten up the concrete piers under the flyover several attractive works of art have been installed.

We picked up another walker through The Dingle but she left us in Westbourne.

An ideal lunch spot, a sunny garden on the cliff top.

A foray into Poole.

The Packe family Mausoleum

Charles William Packe arrived in Branksome in 1853 from Leicester, where he was an MP and the first chairman of Leicestershire County Council. He was a member of Bournemouth's first local authority and was something of a local benefactor, providing the earliest hospitals in Bournemouth and Poole. The mausoleum was built for him and his wife, who died in 1867 and 1870 respectively, and ras restored by Poole Borough Council in 1993.

The Old Harry Rocks and Purbeck Hills across Poole Bay.

A clear view along the coast to Hengistbury Head.

Across the Solent the bright white cliffs and The Needles are visible on The Isle of Wight.

The fossised tree trunk fragment on the promenade.

Now a three ton lump of rock, the fossil dates from 140 million years ago and was transported to Branksome Chine with a consignment of Purbeck stone, destined to become part of one of the Borough of Poole’s new rock groynes.

Golden afternoon light bathes the clifftop.

A clear view of the Isle of Wight and The Needles.

Also unusually visible is the southwest coast of the Island as far as St Catherine's point, the southernmost part of the island.

Bournemouth Pier.

Hopeful surfers near the pier looking like so many dead flies.