SOLSTICE WATCH
21st December 2007

We met at ridiculously-early-o'clock, in the dark, in a car park at Worth Matravers, to walk just over a mile out to St Aldhelm's Head, in the hope of seeing the Winter Solstice sunrise from a good vantage point. 

As conditions were gloomy and drizzly we wondered if we were going to see anything at all! 

The sky gradually lightened and brightened as we walked towards the red glow in the east.  Then the sun leapt out of the sea and reassuringly climbed rapidly into the sky. 

We had heard a story that at the solstice sunrise the sun would shine directly through the tiny east window of St Aldhelm's Chapel onto the altar - and it did!

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