Travelling Trev
Jurassic Coast - Dancing Ledge and St Aldhelm's Head
Distance: 12.8km
Ascent: 390m

Jan 2025 - A tremendous walk. Absolutely freezing in Dorset but that meant nobody around. For 30 minutes, I had Dancing Ledge to myself. Gorgeous. Did the walk clockwise and the only folk I met were some dog walkers on the Priest's Way and the dude in the St Aldhelm's Head lookout station. Still extremely boggy in parts and the clay turned my boots into ice skates. Only the cows saw me fall so that's fine! Although it is romantic to imagine people dancing beneath the moonlight on Dancing Ledge, that's not how it got its name. Dancing Ledge is so called because at certain stages of the tide, when the waves wash over the horizontal surface, the surface undulations cause the water to bob about making the ledge appear to dance. I explored Winspit as always despite some snowflake deeming it should be closed, probably because a pebble was seen tumbling from the cliffs. 
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