It's a magnificent sight

Was up there a couple of weeks ago (parked up at Hemsby and walked up to that big dune about half a mile or so north of Winterton, they've had to fence the actual beach off to stop idiots taking selfies with the seal pups sadly but everyone was well behaved and it was an amazing sight.

The ness has clearly moved even in the last few years and I don't know enough to know if the outer harbour is the cause or not but with the collapsing houses in Hemsby a few years ago and the loss of the cafe it's hard not to fear for the rest of the place really. There's concrete defences up at Somerton and north of there, just a few groynes at Winterton which isn't really doing it, and the blocks they had on the beach there will take the energy out of the waves but won't stop the constant undertow/undercutting.

The valley just behind the dunes is still utterly magnificent, every time I go it looks different with the heathers and trees and so on. Combination of acid soil and brackish water means Rare Stuff(tm) grows there, I'm not clued up enough to know in detail what I'm looking at but it does look amazing in more or less any conditions more or less any time of the year.

Posted By: Old Man, Dec 7, 14:56:03