My walk today took me from Felixstowe Golf Club along the Cliff top to the ice cream stall, (very friendly people) and back along the sea wall past the Golf club to the Ferry. Return by the path adjoining ten golf club.
As you walk along the Cliff top you can enjoy some fab views out to sea with alli its shipping activity. There are some lovely Cliff top houses,many with picture windows and balconies to enjoy this great vista to the full. Down the steps by the Ice cream stall and back along the sea wall. The beach huts are all locked up securely against the winter storms, a long way away form their summer glory and judging by the shingle strewn along the wall there have been some rough seas already.
As you reach the golf club the 2 Martello towers loom into view. Huge monuments to our history. I understand they were built to guard estuaries and harbours to prevent invasion. To me they are quite amazing constructions. Round walls cannot have ben the easiest to construct and the depth of the walls msut have been very good news for the brickmakers.
Continued along the seawall down to the Ferry which at weekends connects you to Bawdsey across the water. Bawdsey Manor which can be easily seen was the base for secret radar experiments in the war. Makes me imagine this all being a very restricted area in those dark times. How many people worked there. A few mad professors perhaps. The pressure to make things work, the disappointments, the kicking of dead equipment hoping it would come back to life and the thrill of something starting to work that man had never seen before.
At the Ferry is the most fabuous fresh fish shop. It looks more like a shed but inside, oh insidie!1 The freshest fish dsiplay I have ever seen. had two fresh gherring whaich i cooked for braekfast the next day. Oh heavely food.
At the Ferry there is also a tea room and a boatyard full of , to me , most interesting craft.
A path to the right leads you along the bottom of the golf course by the harbour and then a path branches off at a kissing gate which takes you along the edge of the golf course back to the club house.
A fairly easy and very enjoyable walk. Stuart
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Blakeney 290911
Today I met up with my friend Pauline and we walked just over 3 miles around Blakeney past Cley Windmill and over the marshes. An absolutely glorious day, with blue sky and sea. P gave me some education on birds and we enjoyed a walk with good conversation and fabulous views. We are so lucky to be living in Norfolk. Earlier the extra high tide had come up to the road but it quickly subsided, just giving us a good reminder of the forces of nature and that sometimes they are bigger than the car.
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