Seal watching...

As everyone was fit and well this morning we drove over to the East Coast for a day by the sea. We stopped for a snack near Thetford, right next to a huge war memorial erected by two villages to honour their dead in the First and Second World wars.

The road over to Winterton is mostly dual carriageway so we arrived just before lunchtime and went for a very long walk on the beach! We knew there was a seal colony nearby and just as I was beginning to despair of ever seeing any, one popped up in the sea, very close to the beach. We saw several more after that and they seemed to enjoy popping their heads out of the water and watching us watching them!

The beach was beautiful - very quiet with just a few people walking their dogs as it was a bit too windy and rough to swim or sunbathe, even though it was warm.

We walked for about an hour and a half and then left the beach through a gap in the dunes and walked back to the car park and the cafe by a series of  sandy paths that meandered about behind the beach. It was very quiet and there was no wind away from the sea. It was a lovely walk but we were very glad to get back to the car and then have a sandwich in the cafe!