Dorset's Jurassic Coast - a scramble down to Chapman's Pool
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2019
- Today, as part of my adventures in Dorset exploring the Jurassic Coast, I visit Chapman's Pool, not the most easiest beach to get too.
Chapman's Pool is a small cove to the west of Worth Matravers on the Isle of Purbeck, and is most deserted because it so difficult to get down too. However, once there, the views are fabulous and the beach lovely.
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Thank you for this presentation Richard, such a magical place😊
Wonderful little video . Visited Chapmans pool many years ago with my wife and four children . We walked from Kingston on a beautiful summer’s evening. Thank you for bringing back some wonderful memories of happy times .
Wonderful
Regarding your comment about people not able to get to places where you clamber to...This is another reason why your videos are so good. You take folks with 'infirmities' along with yoou through your camera and thats cool! Well done Sir Richard Vobes....has a 'ring' to it doesn't it? :-)
Hahahah, Sir Richard indeed. :)
DJ Moss ssomjd great video 👍
Or just the bone idle lol
Thank you Richard nice video and Chapman's Pool is now on my list of places to visit.
way back in mid 80's we anchored a boat in Chapmans pool, found our way to the square and compass. after lots of beers we asked Charlie the landlord what was the best way back to our boat. he said my dog will take you. he called his dog. and said Shep. take these people to Chapmans pool. the dog took off. he stopped every few minutes to check we were all following. and he showed us the way. sometimes the path was so steep i slithered down on my bum. i couldnt stand up and walk on such a steep path. the dog waited for me. when we got close to our boat Shep wagged his tail and went on his way back home and he still stopped for a minute to check we didnt go the wrong way. amazing dog and an amazing plce
You're certainly let the cat out of the bag there ... Chapman's Pool here I come! What a gloriously stunning place. Thank you so much for taking us there.
My pleasure - it is wonderful there. Quite magical.
We camped there in the 1st and 3rd forms of Fosters School in the 1970s. Dorset C.C. maintained a school camp there. Probably I am the only viewer who kayaked there in 1976 under the guidance of Ken House the P.E. teacher.
That slate like stuff is Kimmeridge Clay and worth looking up :)
One of your best Richard! A real adventure. Thanks
So pleased you enjoyed it Linda!
Another great video Richard. If your're thinking of becoming a patron of Richard, It's money well spent in my opinion he really is very grateful of any donation to help the cause. Videos like this help us get in touch with ourselves and find new and wonderful places to go - if we forget they are there or stop visiting them eventually they will get built on.
Thanks so much Ricky. You are very kind!
Great video of a beautiful place
Thank you very much!
A geology guide would have informed your walk. There are many publications and local geological or natural history groups. What impressed me in your film were the cliff failures you walked across. The coast is slowly collapsing into the sea and the slump scars are very clearly visible. Thanks for a taste of UK summer!
A skinny dip surely Richard
I agree we have a thriving folk music song and dance tradition in this country which people should be more aware of including pub sessions
An amazing spot - when you were walking through the undergrowth, I started to think of you being commentated by David Attenborough!
I will be his replacement! :)
That was wonderful what a refreshing trip thank you for sharing this beauty
Ah yes, it is a splendid place.
Well done, I enjoyed that. That cove looks great! I wouldn't nick a boat if I were you, sea is dangerouse! I go in the sea at leg hight and no more! Its scary 😂
Great video well done 👍
Very true - the sea can change and the coast around there is very scary!
Very beautiful and great to see! England does have some stunning places miss living there very much. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for watching. I am thrilled you enjoyed it. England is lovely!
Lol you do have adventures! I hope your legs are ok. The views are amazing! Thank you for taking us there. Love the fossils too. I’ve seen some of these on Time Team when they went to Jurassic coast line. So interesting. So glad the day was working with you on these walks. It truly is so beautiful there and such fun
Stunning.
Thanks Chris!
I found your words at the end very poignant. It is not just our landscaping which must be preserved but our culture.
Absolutely agree.
Most Excellent!
Thank you
I went fishing there recently it’s a beautiful place !!!👍🏻
Did you now - what did you catch?
What a beautiful cove/pool
Isn't it just! :)
Great video Richard, you are quite right you are taking us to places we would never see. Robert, NZ
This must be a bit like some place sin New Zealand?
Planning a fishing trip to Chapmans pool and your video has been a big part of my research, thank you sir 👍🏻
Have fun!
Richard, thank god you have rubber ankles, my heart skipped when you tripped. What a beautiful cove you found , the lapping of the water and views , you do take us to some wonderful places.
So pleased you enjoy them Ann. :)
I dont know how you managed to spend the whole day with a giant bumble bee on your shirt but I salute you Sir.
I didn't get stung once! :)
The pun of your moniker became apparent to me when you boldly bisected the brambly path of nettles. Well done, man of pun & fun.
Thanks so much for watching - glad you enjoyed my bramble ramble! :)
A tricky place to get to. It would be a great place for a film with its natural environment. A really interesting area, so isolated, away from the modern world. Good video, thank you. Just subscribed.
Thanks very much - you are very kind.
@@RichardVobes You're welcome. I've been abroad for a long time (since 1979) and was thrown out of a country due to my age that had been my home for many years. I have only recently returned. Now I feel like a foreigner here, one who has lost everything. I intend to learn more about my own country, that's how I discovered your channel. I am interested in places and history. As you said, there are many interesting and beautiful places in Britain, so I will keep watching and hope to visit them. Thank you, and keep safe.
Well said! I know you were talking about England - but I do wish everyone would realize that our lands (what ever country you might be from) are our heritage & it is our responsibility to take care of it & make sure it sites like this are preserved. Made me sad when you said they were planning to come in there & do some fracking. I know there has been dif areas around USA that they have done this & it has not been very good on the environment or people's health. W/ all the fossils around this area I'm surprised that England hasn't declared it some sort of National preserved land???
Btw...It was a beautiful cove & as someone who is disabled I'm glad you took "that" walk for me. 😅 At one point I thought all the flora & fauna was gonna swallow you up!
I think I meant that this is the sort of stuff they seek out for fracking. I don't think they will frack on these hills. Too near the coast!
Ramibu 2 - the good news is that the whole of the Jurassic coast is a World Heritage site so fracking is very unlikely...
There has been conventional oil drilling on the isle of purbeck for years.
@@MrGreatplum thank you & to Richard. I'm glad to hear it!
Very beautiful ! Thank you Richard. Sting Spider & his friend Terry Dactyl went there hunting for the very illusive Spidersauras fossils. No luck I'm afraid.
Sorry you didn't find anything - better luck next time! :)
I had a look online and the old boat huts were used as a lifeboat station in the late 19th century.
Oh - how interesting!
What an adventure.......
It sure was!
Yes, magnificent beauty, hopefully not to be destroyed by fracking
I don't think they will be fracking there, luckily!
The rocks that led into the sea there look the same as the sea bed at Kimmeridge Bay, the BSAC scuba diving club i used to belong to would take our novice divers there for their fist open water dive and the sea bed there is fascinating because of all the dead straight lines that bisect it, like huge squares, very symmetrical, ive no idea what theyre called but ive seen them no where else but there, till today :)
How interesting. I will have to explore Kimmeridge bay sometime!
I think that you took the scenic route Richard ! But well worth the effort. It reminds me of some parts of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. One can just imagine this being a smugglers paradise in days gone by.
It sure was scenic!
I’m thinking about that little ‘cottage’ as you described it...cast concrete walls, no doubt reinforced with ‘rebar’.
Still door ...can only be MOD ....From days gone by.
Oh, interesting stuff.
The little cottage on the track down was a coastguard station, according to the 1900 OS map
Oh was it - that makes sense. Thanks so much for looking it up! Fascinating!
Another comment; take a map when you explore ! OS large scale maps are great for the coverage of everything !
I usually do.
Loverly vlog Richard from a glorious part of the world, Maybe you could travel to the Cotswolds we have loads of vlog worthy places for you to vlog about.
It is on the list to travel around the Cotswolds. I need to find a worthy guide! :) Are you offering?
I would be delighted to show you around a few wonderful spots in and around the Cotswolds, please contact me on FaceBook Adrian Jeens
😁 AweSome! What a little gem. I'm always in awe of what there is to discover on coastal walks... some aren't as pretty to look at as others, although they all have something magical to offer. The walk, the wonderful sights, the wildlife, the history... we always come away feeling uplifted and thankful 😊 Did you take the same wild route back?😜 Great video, thank you...
Yes I did - same way back - I didn't dare risk another route! :)
There are a lot of dry valleys in the south of England, especially in the Chalk areas. I don't think there were ever glaciers that far south, but there may have been temporary rivers from glacial meltwater. Or they could be due to occasional flash floods, maybe at times when rainfall was heavier.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense - thanks for the correction. :)
I bet it is a great spot for fishing.......hence the small boats left there........you could probably fish well from the shore too....
I suspect you are right! :)
Those fishermen’s huts,very reminiscent of the old hop picking huts! As you say,no chair lift,but also no caravan parks or wind farms!! If anyone wants to do fracking there,I’ll be the first to volunteer to push them off of the cliffs!?!
Good man. Hope picking huts - didn't think of that.
but how did you get out of there? did you go back the way you'd come or did you use the lane by the boat houses?
thank you for a wonderful video, Richard! what a beautiful spot!!!
He swam home, I'm sure.
I returned the same way in fact!
Hahahaha - yes, all the way to Worthing!
You have your swimming gear with you ?
No I don't.
i live in dorset im 14 and my parents have draged me out there so many times only now i apriciate my home and the shorts and stinging nettles today i did a walk in beaminster it was so overgrown it was head hight we had to deal with the pain of the stingers my legs are red now!
sorry if i butcherd the spelling dislexic another walk you should do is the dorset ridgeway one tip if some calfs or cows come up to you clap your hands it should move them if not go ch ch ch push up push up that should move them
it might be helpfull sinseraly isaac
Thanks Isaac - lucky you to live there - how wonderful. A pain with the tourist I imagine in the summer through. Thanks for other walk suggestion.
the Jurassic extinction everyone is familiar with the wiping out of the dinosaurs . But what I find more interesting and was even more devastating was a massive previous extinction .the Permian and later Pangea break up. the period of the mass extinction on land was dominated by mammal like reptiles and in the sea lived my favourite pre-human creature...the tiny Conodont which had the sharpest teeth of all the creatures to have lived lol the Permian- Triassic extinction known as the Great Dying, formed the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, as well as between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, approximately 252 million years ago. it wiped out around 90% - 96% of all living things including the tiny little Conodont .The Pangea was a super continent that later broke up and land masses drifted apart and resulted in the placement of the land on earth. its quite a amazing actually the creatures that survived all this turmoil would go on to evolve into Dinosaurs of the Jurassic and later the Mammals, Birds, Insects fish and everything else living that came after ......and somewhere down in deepest Africa...bored with swinging around high up in the trees and being an inquisitive sort I guess...a little ape did come down and went for stroll lol As its here where.the first hominids would evolve the apes that walked up straight lol my favourite early hominid has to be a small female Australopithecus afarensis from Ethiopia in the Amharic language she is called Dinkinesh which means "you are marvelous" and LUCY certainly is. She is around 3.2 million years old and was the oldest...until again in Ethiopia up popped ARDI a male skeleton from around 4.4 million years ago Ardipithecus ramidus the oldest pre-human species yet found.
My God! How old are Humans and prehumans - it makes the mind boggle!
I wouldn't want one of those in the bath!
He broke open this piece and came across this "am-I-right"🤔
It is an amazing place!
@@RichardVobes it truly is - and that Ammonite fossil was wonderful! This is on my list of places to visit - thank you for a great tour of this great part of our country.
This is a link to the website with old maps of Britain; maps.nls.uk/
A terrific resource. Thanks!
not slate," Kimmeridge clay" i think.....
You shouldnt have told them about it
Told who?
Why fly to country abroad when Britain has it all...
My thoughts exactly!