On a long walk along the Dorset coast from Durdle Door to the Petrified Forest, the scenery was something out of a holiday brochure, and the water clear and inviting. After taking a steeper and far more laborious route than we needed that took us above Lulworth Cove, we had little water, and I wanted to cool off. Floating around in Lulworth cove (discovering I didn't have to flail about to prevent drowning), I was wishing I had a mask, or just some goggles even. Though I wasn't a very good swimmer and not even sure if I could do a duck dive, I made up my mind to get a snorkel set as soon as possible. The Petrified Forest is well worth a visit, by the way, with brilliant white (in the hot sun) bouldery stumps of ancient trees and fossilised algal mats to clamber around; there is also an amusing educational sign with a painting that shows a caveman hunting dinosaurs.
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