hello and welcome to the jurassic coast
so yes we are on the jurassic coast today and i'm gonna be running you through
six of the most famous attractions and landmarks that you can see on the coast
now the first four of these are within a one hour hike of each other so if you fancy an epic
scenic coastal hike from durdle door here all the way to lulworth cove then that's something
that you can definitely do and then all the other things we're visiting are spread all
around the jurassic coast so make sure you stay tuned for that subscribe if you enjoy and uh
let's begin are you excited ellie very, yeah, it's a nice door, the best door, very functional
so the jurassic coast is a world heritage site in dorset and there's over 180 million years of
history around here due to constant coastal erosion in this area there are many fossils
constantly being uncovered and yeah as i say the best place to start your hike is right here
the most famous landmark of them all possibly durdle door
is it warm enough to swim ellie no no no do you see i have a jumper and a coat
it is a little cold but that's a good thing we saw someone
this is someone's brave enough i mean we are in england there's always someone
even in december yes and then they would wonder why they have pneumonia
so durdle door is a natural limestone arch and it's believed to be over 140 million years old
in fact at various points in its life the jurassic coast has been at times a tropical forest a
marshland and a desert so there really is some amazing interesting history here
scientists predict that eventually the roof of durdle door will erode away leaving only
a single pillar and there's already a lot of other rock pillars along the coast so really
maybe durdle door is just the last surviving of many and another really interesting thing to see
that is literally right next to durdle door is man o war beach as you can see from this video
here the stairs down to durdle door split into two and you can either go left to man o war beach or
right to durdle door so yeah you've got two options really which is great
another thing jurassic coast is really well known for is it's fossils so if you are into fossil
hunting and you want to have a go at finding one i hear that charmouth beach is a really great place
to go around lime regis another really interesting fact that i found is if you ever heard the tongue
twister she sells seashells on the seashore that is about mary anning who is a famous fossil hunter
who lived in the lime regis and most of her fossil discoveries were found on the jurassic coast
probably around this area can you say that ellie? she sells she sellss no she can't even say it once
go on go on all eyes on you she's she sells she sells no that's not seashells she sells she sells
sea shells on the seashore right that's not very impressive well done good attempt that's all clap
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on youtube right let's carry on our hike and let's get to our next attraction on this epic coastline
so now we are approaching lulworth cove we've just done the hike it's not actually that hard there's
a few ups and downs but nah i think as long as you can walk standard you'll be able to do it
okay so here we are right now at stair hole which is kind of like the little brother to lulworth
cove which is just uh right i can see it right now you can't so lulworth cove i would say is probably
the second most popular attraction uh on this sort of jurassic coast coastline area and it's
almost perfectly circular and it's another thing that's constantly changing but because it's a
cove it means the waves are extremely calm and if you're coming in the summer and you fancy a swim
i feel like this is a really great place along with dirt or door to getting to see
and enjoy yourself and where i am right now stair hole as i said it's like the little brother of
law worth cove and that's because this is how lol worth cove would have looked like
you know many many many many years ago due to the waves is constantly eroding and getting larger and
larger and larger so it would have much looked like this i think jurassic coast is home some
of the best coastal scenery that i have ever seen you would agree that that wouldn't really
yes it is it's very nice lovely and this one out of ten
what time is it now it's christmas time
now another thing which i unfortunately cannot show you in this video but i am
literally looking at it from a distance right now is the fossil forest it's real shame we
can't see it but it is located inside a firing range which is inaccessible
on weekdays so any weekend pretty much it is available for you to visit and nice and
open just make sure you check the website online before but even though i can't show
it to you in this video i highly recommend you do a bit of research into it if you're
interested in prehistoric things but the good thing is that next we are heading to the famous
isle of portland and apparently we can see some fossilized forest parts over there as well
so now it is later on in the day and we are now at schezel beach which is an extremely unique beach
as you can probably tell from behind me it's kind of double-sided in a way so what we're visiting in
this segment is the isle of portland we have just gone through weymouth which is this city over here
this harbour gets amazing views over where we were earlier this morning which was right over
there but yeah chisel beach really uh unique and uh kind of very rugged beach maybe not the
best for sunbathing but good for exploring so yeah let's head to the isle of portland
so here we are next to the portland bill lighthouse don't worry we're going to get
closer just on the way down the sun's come back out which is great and the isle of portland kind
of carries on with the ruggedness and sort of nature wildlife aspect of chisel beach
so i think this would be an incredible place to come to watch the sunset we were going to do
that but because of the standard british weather we had to change our plans around a little bit
but still it's great to be here and see this awesome looking thing
hello and welcome to a small interlude to the video i didn't plan to put this in but
we have just stumbled across something extremely interesting completely by accident something that
i don't think many people really know about at all we have found some old dinosaur footprints
they are owned by the national trust they are a little bit of a challenge to find they're in the
middle of a very industrial uh quarry filled area but it is listed on google maps and you can see
it and i'm here right now and i would totally suggest it is so interesting and incredible so
a little bit of history the tracks that are left here probably left by the brachiosaurus which is
some of the largest animals that have ever walked on earth and this specific area in which we are
standing 145 million years ago used to be closer to a freshwater lagoon because the jurassic coast
used to be covered by coastal forests swamps lagoons and salt flats and over time different
layers of rock were laid down all around those environments which trapped and buried the remains
of the dinosaurs footprints here so then obviously millions of years later when humans came to quarry
this they have been uncovered again and this one thankfully has been really well preserved
okay so now for the final thing we're visiting in this video we are at some of
the most easterly points of um of the jurassic coast and we are visiting the old harry rocks
so these are free chalk columns and there's actually some really interesting stories as to um
why they're called the old harry rocks the first one is that the devil used to sleep on the rocks
um devil also known as old harry so that's where they get their name that's idea one the next idea
is that they were named after the infamous harry hay uh who was a famous pirate from poole who used
to hide behind the rocks and use them to ambush ships that were passing by and the third is that
during a viking raid back in the 9th century a storm hit and a man named earl harold was
drowned and turned into a pillar of chalk so there you go there's three i don't know which
one your favorite is mine i think is the pirate one but i think any folklore is really interested
to learn about nonetheless and there's some really incredible scenery around these rocks as well as a
really really nice one mile walk to get there over some really flat nice friendly terrain so you can
chill we're walking there now um it's early in the morning it's probably about
half nine i think so it's a nice way to start the day and chill out
and so there we are that is our top things to visit on the
jurassic coast i hope you enjoyed what should everybody do
like and subscribe oh yeah do all that good stuff and i'll see in the next one
i'll be posting another video very soon so yeah hope you enjoyed and goodbye have a good one
you