What a lovely day to spend by the sea. That's what we both thought this morning so we drove the three miles to a small village, Cley Next the Sea. (why a 'to' wasn't included in the name is anyone's guess.) Anyway we had decided to have a lazy day, "Relaxing on the beach" said Ian. Sun was out and the day promised to be a good 'un. Drove along more narrow lanes until we reached Cley. What a nightmare that turned out to be. Parked cars, buses, pedestrians, cyclist, well it couldn't get more challenging in manoeuvring the Beast along all the bends. Eventually, we managed to get back onto a wider road and found the sign to the car park near Blakeney Point which, so we had been told, was a good place to see the Seals. Hmmm, 'spoke' and 'wheels' came to mind 'cos our chance was scuppered by the Little Terns which happened to be nesting all along the spit and right out to the point, Barriers were in place to stop the public from disturbing the nesting sites. And even if we could have gone to see the Seals, the distance from the car park to Blakeney Point was a good 4-mile walk! The wind was also an issue, bit chilly, so not really sunbathing weather. But undeterred we still decided to see how far we could get before the barriers would stop us in our tracks.
The beach was made up of stones, shingle, pebbles with very little sand. Walking on that was like leg exercises in the gym. And then we had another workout! Stooping, sidestepping and dodging as we tried to duck the onslaught of those Terns. They were not happy about us being there!
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| That's one of the Terns top left of the photo just before it dived toward Ian. |
After a good hours walk, we turned back. My Fitbit watch showed I had done 5000+ steps. That's over 2 miles and we still had the journey back to do. So much for the relaxing day on the beach! Returning to the Beast, oh how welcome was that. But we had to move as the car park had no overnight parking, so we drove to a huge shingle layby about 1/2 mile back along the lane. This will do nicely for tonight and seeing the Seals are also on the cards as we have found a boat trip that is due to leave tomorrow at 10.15am for Blakeney Point.
And wildlife today,
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| Black-headed Gull |
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| Tern |
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| Plover |
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| ? |
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| Small Tortishell |
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| GateKeeper |
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| Marsh Harrier |
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