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The Sea Is Not Always This Blue!

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I assure you — no photo-shopping or any other devious means were used to take this shot! That shade of blue is exactly as it was.

This is the Dorset coast, looking west from near St Aldhelm’s Head. The cliffs in the foreground and just beyond have been known to smoulder due to the oil shale they contain. There is a small oil well just inland.

This is the Jurassic Coast, where younger Cretaceous rocks — the chalk is fully exposed further east — can also be seen as the white cliffs in the distance.

On the far horizon you can just make out the Isle of Portland.

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John Welford
John Welford

Written by John Welford⁠

He was a retired librarian, living in a village in Leicestershire. A writer of fiction and poetry, plus articles on literature, history, and much more besides.

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