Sizewell Walk

"Shall we go for a walk?", asked Dawn as I was completing my comments on the day's Times for the Times blogs. We decided to take a trip to the coast and I chose a walk we hadn't done before from the AA book 50 Walks in Suffolk. Today it was number 7 Sizewell A, B... and sea. Ha ha. Very funny. Especially with all the controversy over Sizewell C.

Our walk took us inland and through some of the Sizewell Belts, which I visited on this Suffolk Walking Festival Walk in 2018. We then carried on North to Eastbridge, where we turned East along the edge of Minsmere Nature Reserve to Minsmere sluice and then back along the sea front.

This was our route.

And here are some of my photos.

Th car park at the beach, pir starting point, is only £1.20 a day (and free during the winter).

We walked past the Vulcan Arms. Entertaining sign!

Leaving the road, we headed around the back of the decommissioned Sizewell 'A' power station.

We  saw some serious looking switching gear, with cables leading to the pylons overhead.

The path we were following was sandy and dry.

I liekd thje trees in this little birch wood.

We turned downhill towards Sizewell Marsh. Fortunately it wasn't too wet underfoot as we walked along the stream and then through the wood.

We were too early in the year to see the flowers I had seen on my previous walk, but we could see plenty of blubells growing.

Our path took us to Upper Abbey, a Grade II listed farmhouse, that was restored after a fire, as reported here.

At Eastbridge Farm we saw these posters. The scale of the development of Sizewell 'C' will be enormous.

We decided to take a little detour to visit the Eel's Foot for lunch.

I had the special. Welsh Rarebit with smoked haddock and salad and an egg on top. Delicious.

Heading towards the sea now we saw a small herd of deer amd a soltary Muntjac.

 In the distance were the cottages at the top of the cliff at Dunwich Heath.

We passed the Old Abbey, with Sizewell B as a backdrop.

On no. We had done so well, but there was no avoiding this mud.

We reached Minsmere Sluice and the SE corner of the Nature Reserve.

We started back along the beach, but it was hard going on the sand and shingle into the strong wind.

So we returned to the path as we approached Sizewell 'B'.

This platfrom just offshore had a lot of birds.

And then we were back where we started.

We agreed that was rather a good walk with lots of variety of landscapes.With our extra detour to the Eel's Foot our walk ended up a bit further than the book said at 7.3m. "I'm going to feel stiff in the morning", said Dawn.

You can see more details of our route here on MapMyWalk and more of my photos here on Flickr.