On Oct 15, 12:22*am, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:13:34 -0700 (PDT), Nick

wrote:
On Oct 14, 9:45*pm, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
This afternoon I could see the Purbeck hills in Dorset, from
Lee-on-the Solent. That's 37 - 38 miles looking straight down the
western Solent and is something i haven't often seen.

BTW I've seen the Purbecks from Bow Hill, above Chichester, before so
I guess that's about the limit.

You'd have been looking _precisely_ over my head in Lee, *and on down
the Western Solent like me. So that's about 55 miles line of sight,
excellent. From where I was, down on the beach, there is nothing
further to be seen; it's nice to be on the limit occasionally. *

--
Dave

I wonder if you can ever see France from the Purbecks? ISTR this
coming up before and someone saying the hills were *just about* too
low, but it was a narrow thing. Don't think it's that much more than
55 miles from Purbeck to Cherbourg, maybe 60 or 70?

Nick