Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door

Lulworth Cove is a very picturesque little village on a beautiful cove on the Jurasic Coast in Dorset County, England.







The next picture is of a tree in someone's yard. Hanging from the tree are children's sand buckets and shovels. We assumed that whoever lived here had been collecting abandoned buckets on the beach for a long time!






There is a big parking lot with a sign that points to the tourist spot "Durdle Door". What the sign does not tell you is that once you have climbed a very steep hill (it seemed more like a small mountain!), you have just barely begun the walk to view the natural limestone arch called Durdle Door! It is a very long and hard walk (at least it is for us---but it's not quite like Colorado mountains!), but when the "up-hill" part is done, it begins to be worth going, because the scenery is beautiful!
The next photos are of the walk up the hills.










Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch. The word "Durdle" is probably from an old English word meaning "pierced, having a hole".