Holiday in Norfolk: Blakeney and Cley

On the north Norfolk coast a
visit to the Grey and Common Seals
on Blakeney Point is a must.
(More detail about the area at:
http://www.norfolkbroads.com/guides/area/blakeney )

So having walked the coastal path
from Blakeney to Morston
I boarded one of the boats taking groups
down the muddy creek and out to
the Point


The seals behaved impeccably for the cameras!








I could have then returned to Blakeney, trip over.
But I decided to be "marooned" on the point
and the boat returned home without me.

Now, thought, I was alone with the "lonely sea
and the sky"........

Solititude
Video sent by agracarter2

Well, so maybe not entirely alone. But it was
wonderfully remote out there on the shingle
spit..... a haunt for a few holidaying (?) anglers
(and somewhere to stay too!)

..with floral splashes of colour.

Here's a horned poppy..

...or here some sea lavender on the salt marsh


(Are you thinking "Magwitch" yet?)




Golden mud....a goldmine for hungry wading birds..

A long, rewarding trudge and I approach "the mainland"
once again....and the windmill at Cley. (Does anyone
visting Cley come away without a photo of it? I wonder)


I was struck by the flint walls on my visit to North
Norfolk...very attractive, and such a contrast to
Cotswold stone!

I like to call this photo "Cley-with-flints"
(a rather obscure geological pun)