Dunwich and Minsmere Walk

I hadn't been for ages, but it's Dawn's favourite place on the coast to go for a walk and it was her turn to decide where to go. Dunwich Heath. Not content with just doing one of the waymarked trails, we took a route we had walked before, heading North through the heath before turning South West and circumnavigating the Minsmere nature reserve. This was our route.

Although a bit windy it wasn't too cold and it stayed dry until just after we finished. Here are a few photos from along the route.

We stopped for lunch at the wonderful Eel's Foot pub. The sausage baguette was very filling and the Adnams Old Ale very moreish. Fortunately, I wasn't driving. Frequented by the BBC Springwatch crew, there are signatures all over the ceiling. I particularly liked that Melanie signed herself as Head of Better. W1A was such a good spoof!

We took a short detour to visit the ruins of  Leiston Abbey Chapel, which is all that remains of the original abbey. The view of it looking south made an odd juxtaposition with Sizewell B power station in the background.

We passed this nice flock, some of whom took to the air.

As we walked along the sea-front I stopped at the public viewing platform to try out the extra zoom of my new camera.

We ended at the foot of the cliffs with a view along the beach to Southwold in the distance.

A nice 6 1/2 mile walk. Here is a slideshow of my pictures (Flash required).

You can see them all here on Flickr and see more details of our route in my MapMyWalk log.