Wednesday Aug 28th. Enjoy your breakfast those that are choosing to stay in the area. I'll be parking in Tower Road, Burnham Overy Staithe and we will meet at the Hero Pub, Burnham Overy Staithe, where we finished the day before. Shall we meet at 9.30am again?
Timing was a bit tight for me as breakfast at The Gin Trap Inn didn't start until 8:30 and I had to wait 10 minutes for my breakfast to be cooked (but it was worth the wait). We were all there for 9:30 and able to start on time. No Peter today and a different Jane, but otherwise the cast remained the same. The promise was of a cooler day than yesterday and so it was... but only to start with.
This was our route....
Here are a few of my photos...
Our meeting point. You can see it has been raining, but the freshness was beginning to evaporate already.
Back onto the path we left yesterday.
We came across this lady harvesting leaves. "Sea beet", she said, "is even better for you than spinach".
After being inland for almost all of our walk yesterday, today we got to go on the beach of Holkham Nature Reserve. From Gun Hill behind us to Holkham Gap was about 2 1/2 miles walk along the sand.
"What films have been filmed here?", someone asked. Hmm. What do I know about films? Not a lot. But maybe you would like to try and make your own list before looking at the answer here.
Meanwhile, as we neared Holkham Gap, the beach grew busier with people and horses.
We went inland and walked along the path behind the pine trees to Abraham's Bosom lake. Here we took a brief diversion onto the beach again to see the huts.
From the lookout station we followed the bank into Wells next the Sea. As you can see, the tide was out.
I just had to include this eponymous namesake.
But no rock for us. Ice-creams instead. I got a blood-orange sorbet. Nice colour!
Then it was onward out of Wells towards Stiffkey along the edge of the saltmarsh.
Here we met with Paul again who had been walking on his own for a while.
We had much better views of the wind farms today. It was too hazy for us to see them yesterday.
Garborough Creek touches the route for a while.
We liked this boat out in the marsh.
As the creek left us we could see the dunes of Blakeney Point.
Beyond the boats at Morston, we could see the twin towers of Blakeney Church.
We had need of the refreshments available at Morston Quay.
I climbed the watchtower to see the view... and get some shade. It was nearly as hot as yesterday.
Not far from here to Blakeney.
As well as creeks which are navigable when the tide is in, the marsh also has numerous rivulets.
We reached Blakeney....
...and decided this would be a good place to end our walk for today, leaving the stretch to Cley next the Sea till tomorrow. We headed for the bus-stop passing the Kings Arms along the way. This is where Roland ended up staying the night. very nice.
There is no longer a single coast long bus service - the route is now split between two companies, so we had to get this bus to Wells next the Sea.
We had a little time to spare before catching the other bus to explore Wells a bit more...
...and for me to quench my thirst with a lager shandy here.
Another great day's walking of about 15 1/2 miles, leaving us just a bit more than that to get to Cromer tomorrow.
You can see lots more of my photos here on Flickr and more details of our route today here on MapMyWalk.
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