Work you may have seen this week on the beach just west of Mudeford is part of coastal defence involving moving sand.
Also news today of another dramatic cliff fall on the Dorset Coast Path. This time the chalk cliff has collapsed between Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove which raises more question about safety.
The Beach Hut Cafe at Friars Cliff is advertising itself as open 365 days a year from at least 9am.
The family-run cafe is between Avon Beach and Steamer Point and good enough to have featured in Christchurch Food & Wine Festival.
The IMAX building in the heart of Bournemouth seafront has ben demolished.
There is much of the building on the ground to be cleared but ‘Britain’s ugliest building’ has ceased to block the view.
The Daily Echo has coverage and pictures.
Tonight’s Channel 4 Walking Through History with Tony Robinson has been a reminder of how Dorset’s coast was the front line in the Second World War. Also, Studland Bay, Chesil Beach and Worth Matravers were centres of vital preparation.
The programme featured Fort Henry at Studland and interestingly made clear that from there the D-Day rehearsal was watched by not only George VI and Winston Churchill but also Dwight Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery.
Maybe he should have continued east along the Bournemouth Coast Path to see the Highcliffe Hotel where a vital meeting made Churchill the war leader.
Lymington’s seawater baths have been designated as a listed building by English Heritage.
This Grade II protection comes as plans were being prepared to reduce the size of the sea water pool which is the oldest in the country.
With the Bath House, now Lymington Town Sailing Club, dating from 1833 there are plans to mark the bath’s 180th anniversary.
Today Easter Day is the first day of British Summer Time which means that the Mudeford Ferry starts operating.
No need to take the Christchurch diversion when walking between Southbourne and Mudeford.
Fare: £1.30; child 70p.
Jonathan Dimbleby has promised to walk a section of the South West Coast Path to mark forty years of the South West Coast Path Association.
The last western leg of the path is part of the Dorset Coast Path and joins the Bournemouth Coast Path at Sandbanks so the Associations’s guide, revised and updated annually, is always of special interest.
Also, it is the coast path between Swanage and the Poole Harbour entrance which is experiencing much change with land falls just outside town and rising tides in now undefended Studland Bay.
The South West Coast Path 2013 guide has good colour pictures and handy bed and breakfast lists.
The paperback, £9.95, can be obtained from the South West Coast Path Association.
Walkers looking down on the beach from Boscombe cliffs may interested in the movement of sand reported here.
Hurst Castle is facing huge and unexpected erosion problems.
Castle manager Sean Crane says that there had been a dramatic change in the depth of the water on the sea side of the castle.
There has been an emergency meeting this week between English Heritage who maintain the castle and New Forest District Council.
The council added more than 600,000 tonnes of gravel to Hurst Spit on 1996.
Friends of Hurst Castle chairman David Jupp says no one seems to know why it has happened.
English Heritage told the New Milton Advertiser: “We are concerned about coastal erosion affecting the foundations of Hurst Castle.
“Coastal protection works were undertaken around 20 years ago and these had been effective until relatively recently.
“However, this winter has seen an area of erosion develop along the east wing where the level of shingle along the beach has dropped in some areas. This has resulted in part of the concrete foundations now being exposed to high tides.”
As the Navitus wind farm consultation enters its last month opponents has released an interesting film indicating how much of the off-shore plant will be visible.