No matter the weather the coasts beauty always shines through. I'd gone over the coast to watch the Solstice sunset as an old fisher guy, had been told by an older fisher guy, that if watched from the barrow on Emmett Hill, the Sun went down on the summer Solstice through a notch in the nearby hillside of Swyre Head, the highest point of the Purbecks. Intriguing. On arriving at Emmett Hill it appeared the Purbeck hills were bursting forth out into the channel like puffing stream trains, as clouds formed on their faces and raced inland forced by driving winds. Still the sun shone and and the scene was magical. The Sun didn't go down in a notch, rather over the Bowl Barrow which crowns the head, which was significant in itself. Interestingly though, as well as the barrow, there are two notches in Swyre head, all three features appear equally spaced, it could be that the notches are significant for other sunsets. I intend to visit on the Equinox and Winter Solstice, to see if there are alignments.
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