Southwold - last photos

So Wednesday thru Saturday we were on our own.  That means walking in our book.  The weather was kind, if not a bit windy at times, but made for some good photos.

Wednesday we walked to Dunwich and back via Westwood Lodge that's 14 miles round.  Stopped for the obligatory pint at the Ship then had a picnic lunch on the beach

Thursday we had a lazy sort of day, wandered around, finished a puzzle then lunch at the Smokehouse

Friday we set out to walk to Kessingland along the beach.  We got as far as Benacre Marshes but the sea had breached the marsh and access was via a fast flowing runoff which we decided may be a problem on the return as the tide was due to start coming in.  Actually we were glad to decided to return when we did, as we were actually cut off at Southwold via the route we got onto the beach and faced either a very wet climb over the rocks or a scramble up the cliff!  The cliff won, bit scary but at least dry. A couple of pints at the Nelson were needed to get over the climb!

this wasn't the cliff we climbed thank goodness

Magpie bakery sausage rolls

drift wood to take home

and that was Southwold November 2015.  Work came very hard this morning..........

Beach walking

and so that beach walk, this walk takes us along the beach from Southwold, Easton Bavents, Covehithe, and on toward Kessingland.  There is lots of coastal erosion along this walk and it is sad to see with each year just how far inland the sea is going. If you look at the links above you can see just how close the homes are to the cliff edge and after the recent storm surge I expect even closer!

Anyway on to the walk, this little chap was sunning himself (actually not sure if it is a boy)

Some of the trees that have fallen over time, they do make for interesting drift wood but sad nevertheless

He just had to try!

Time to head back.....

Hi, still here

This is a picture that came from the BBC website of the damage to the beach after last weeks tidal surge, the beach has been breached and flooded into the marshes.

The same has happened on our other walk to Dunwich via the marshes.  Dunwich has always had a battle with the sea and I do wonder if the sea will eventually win all along this coastline, lets hope not