Swimming with Stars

Weeks before any trip I always buy a paper map of the area and find myself poring over it to find places to visit. We visited the beautiful county of Dorset in 2019. The place name ‘Dancing Ledge’ on the Jurassic coastline captured my imagination. Our visit luckily coincided with an outgoing tide, where we watched a lone swimmer in the tidal pool on the ledge. This was something that had to be on my to-do list but we were unprepared for such an adventure that day. We finally returned in 2022, the sea was calm, the sun was bright and it appeared as if thousands of stars were playing chase in the sea. I swam in the tidal pool surrounded by stars, how heavenly.

Visit collection: Wonderful Britain
Chapman's pool, a tidal pool at Dancing Ledge Dorset, a lone swimmer, starbursts of sunlight dance on the water
Have the stars skipped down when the moon's not around to play on the sea in a daytime breeze? Or maybe the sun has sprinkled glitter over the waves to glint and flitter as sparkling sun glitter. When the sun's asleep and the stars peep is it silver the moon spills to make the sea shimmer for the midnight swimmer? Possibly it is all three.
  • Swimming with Stars
  • Dancing Ledge
  • Dorset
  • UK