Mupe Rocks

Mupe rocks, so often out of reach beyond the fences and warning signs of the Lulworth ranges, were bathed in cool winter sunshine today, with a powder blue sky which was only occasionally broken by passing cloud. Although just east along the coast from Lulworth cove, a local 'honey pot', Mupe feels wild and isolated, helped, no doubt, by all routes to Mupe requiring some exertion, either around a long pebble cove or over a steep Bindon Hill.  Mupe never fails to stir you. The rocky bay has changed in places since my last visit, the 'broken beds' have collapsed in several places, reshaping the higher reaches of the inter-tidal. Beyond that though Mupe appeared timeless as always. The tide was out exposing fingers of freestone, the ledges, extending out into Mupe Bay and allowed rare access out on to some of the bays bigger rocks. Your eyes are darting around, everywhere you're spoilt for for wonders. Beyond any doubt one of the most beautiful sections of coast in purbeck. There's wild history in this place too, of nature and of men, and you feel it, it's a very special place.