A walk along the Poole Bay seafront during the pandemic lockdown

A photographic chronicle
by Andy Ross

I performed this walk in the 11th hour of Misericordias Domini Sunday, 26 April 2020.
 

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The path toward the seafront is leafy
 

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The path opens up as the seafront gets nearer
 

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The first glimpse of the beach, looking eastward
 

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The beach, looking westward
 

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The beach is not too crowded and nicely distanced
 

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The lifeguard station looks rather lonely
 

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From here the crowds look denser
 

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From here, one sees the beach is actually quite empty
 

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Looking toward Bournemouth and Hengistbury Head
 

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The lifeguard station in close-up
 

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Looking eastward, the beach is still empty
 

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The Canford Cliffs beach huts look picturesque
 

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The cliff looks good, but it's unstable
 

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Endless ranks of beach huts do look depressing
 

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Here comes the beach patrol to check up on social distancing
 

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These people look crowded, but actually they're well distanced
 

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Looking eastward, these people don't even look crowded
 

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Looking westward, ditto
 

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Stairs up to a higher rank of beach huts
 

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View over a lonely beach
 

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But usually it's not so lonely
 

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In fact, it's hard to be alone here
 

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The beach huts are delapidated, despite their higher rank
 

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Onward and upward, toward the clifftop
 

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All this vegetation helps to fix the cliff face
 

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The path continues upward
 

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On and on it leads
 

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The view begins to look grander
 

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And here a clifftop garden, looking eastward
 

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The garden, looking westward
 

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And now, looking down on the garden
 

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Along the clifftop
 

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We encounter a kids' playground
 

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A last look at the beach, before we head inward
 

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Looking southward from a car park
 

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Finally, the local library and polling station