The North Norfolk coast

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Today was a long session with Gill on the Norfok coast, starting in Morston. The village of Morston is close to the villages of Blakeney and Cley-next-the-Sea. It is famous for its salt marshes. Like its neighbour Blakeney, Morston used to be a major port 400 years ago, but is now only used by a small number of fishing boats, leisure craft and the regular seal watching trips.
So, what photographs can we take? I must admit that I found it difficult to start with but I did finish with some images that I thought said something about the place as it is now.


Large numbers of small craft lined the banks


I loved the detail in this rusty chain laying amongst the green foliage and mud



As can be seen in these images, the tide was definitely out. It would be intersting to compare with a high tide. If you could reach the same areas of course.



The whole area of salt marshes was full of these pools amidst the beautiful Sea Lavender. I loved the cracked mud feature at the base of them.



A couple more boat pictures but these are with rather dramatic skies. I do like a good sky!


Harbour quayside buildings at Burnham overy Staithe. We were near here when a torrential shower struck. Luckily, this building was housing a rather good exhibition of a local schools work. It was all on a theme, and some of it was quite impressive for primary age young people.


Some larger vessels tucked away

On leaving here we dinner at a local pub and then headed to Thornham, hoping for a good sunset. In hindsight this did not occur, but thats the luck of it all! However here are a few images from Thornham.



This building is labelled 'Coal Barn' on Bryant's 1826 map of Norfolk On a more modern survey it was found as "A building located on the quayside, north of Thornham village, and was recorded. It measured 12m by 7m and was built out of red brick (largely handmade), chalk blocks and flint. It was probably used for storing shipped goods, including coal, before further transport by road."
Local newspaper articles indicate that the Barn is deteriorating which is not surpising given its 300 year age and that various plans have been put forward to conserve it. These even included an application to turn it into a house! That was turned down as it was considered too dangerous.


A forest from the past - stumps in the marshes


Local bridge above, and below are my two favourite images of the day.



The coal barn and a boat with a magical cloud formation - I just loved it.
At this point of the day we `called it a day` as there was not much chance of a sunset. Hard going but a great day.




Location: Thornham, Hunstanton PE36, UK

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