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4th December 2019 Hiking - Walking: Horsey Water Pump Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: 3 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Wednesday 3rd December – walk *** - Horsey Wind pump – sunny. A good night in the little VW parked in West Somerton at the end of the Staithe not cold despite waking a frost. I took the camera out to try for some sunrise pics and watched a fisherman launch his boat and head out to the broads. I then spoke to a dog walker who was going herring drifting later who said he thought that there were too many seals about now, might be right as there are over 3000 on this section of beach at Horsey and apparently 3000 pups have been born up at Blakeney! With wall to wall sunshine on a perfect winter’s days we enjoyed our porridge before returning to the National Trust’s Horsey Windpump to do a 3-mile circular walk taking in the Mere and Horsey village. While Mag got a carpark ticket, free with our NT membership card I went in search for the small disc I had lost off my camera yesterday, sadly I didn’t find it, that’s another £30 off Ebay! When I returned to the van Mag was talking to some people in a red car which turned out to be our friends, Neil and Linda Hurrell who had come up to see the seals:) After a nice catch up we went our separate ways as we headed over to the very picturesque windmill, sadly not open as the views from the top would have been stunning but it is still a photographers dream set as it is at the end of the Staithe:) We continue to the viewpoint overlooking the impressive Horsey Mere which is a deadend so we return to start the circular walk, then sadly we have some bad news, a notice at the start says the path is closed due to work on the dyke:( We decide to carry on to the actual closure with the reed fringed mere to the left and grazing fields of sheep to the right with the path being very muddy! We get to the closure after a mile and a half and have to backtrack, a shame really as we miss the best part of the walk, the dyke leading to Brograve Mill and Horsey village, still never mind perhaps we can do it on another visit to the seals. Back at the van we enjoy some home-made soup before heading for home a little earlier than expected having a quick look at Potter Heigham. So a nice couple of days away in the lovely Norfolk:) Photo Gallery Here NT Horsey – Windpump |
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