The Isle of Purbeck is an area of outstanding natural beauty, ideal for walkers, naturalists, golfers and lovers of water sports and the British coastline. From Studland Bay, with its sweeping golden beaches you can roam across hundreds of acres of heath land and forest, most of which is now owned and managed by The National Trust.
Studland Heath, which surrounds the bay, is a landscape that is the most typical of the area. It is also the home of two of Britain’s rarest reptiles: the harmless smooth snake and the sand lizard. The common lizard and the poisonous adder also thrive in this environment and heath land birds including the Dartford warbler, nightjar, red-backed shrike and stone curlew are all found here.
The beautiful sandy heaths are ideal for hacks, summer and winter.
Nearby is Poole harbour, one of the finest natural harbours in the world, almost land locked and well sheltered from the open sea. Right in the middle is Brownsea Island that was once the base of Harry Paye a pirate who operated from the Poole area. and the site of Baden Powell’s first ever scout camp in1907.