Taking the time to take a detour

On Monday evening on the way home from my kayaking course in Wareham (see Post on Mishmashlearning blog) I spotted that fog was coming into the Purbeck valley from the west. I drove home across Middlebere from Arne to Norden as it allows a better vista. I stopped the car several times to take pictures as the sunset became more splendid and the fog hid the lower valley either side of the Purbeck chalk ridge.

Corfe Castle was starting to disappear. I stopped again in Corfe, at the start of Kingston by the Scott Arms to look back into the valley below and then drove out onto the Sheep Pen end of West Street to look towards Creech hill.

A spectacular sight that I was grateful to watch develop. As I went to work on Tuesday morning the fog was on the ridge and almost flowing down the sides.

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