Sun at Swanage

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A blue sky sunny day

Will dodging the waves

Looking down on Will

Me on the belay ledge

Me on the belay ledge (close up)

Today I took Will to climb sea cliffs at Swanage. The weather was great and I had even got the tides right (sort of). After abbing down onto a platform at Comorant Ledge that was about 3 inches above the sea and flooded with every other wave, we managed to flake ropes on a convenient ledge in the cave and I set off up Oran (S 4a) out into the heat of the sun. Pitch 1 ended on an amazing ledge that had clearly been used by all the sea birds as a toilet. Once Will had joined me I headed up the second pitch which was just as great and topped out onto a slighlty loose grassy slope.

I am not sure what effect being splashed by the sea and climbing crumbly limestone had on Will but he has asked to return to Dartmoor for more Granite tomorrow!

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