Coasting Fragments

Coasting – Bacton

Bacton; a place name to conjure with if you know North East Norfolk's emptier fringe. A confusing piece of coast where as you move North of Happisburgh the cliff first drops and as you swing further there is a vale where Walcott sits. As the cliff starts to rise a...
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Coasting: Sidestrand – the moving edge

There are a few places where you can really see the dynamism of the erosion of the soft coastline. It is obvious along nearly the whole length of Norfolk and well into Suffolk, our soft glacial memory is easily eroded. Shifts can be seen in the surfaces, the revealed...
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Coasting: Happisburgh Low light

It's a habit, almost a ritual. On Boxing day we go on a beach walk, blow away the cobwebs, usually at Happisburgh. This drives further back than our family now. We did the same when I was a child. My mum and dad and whoever else happened to be there on Boxing Day were...
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Coasting: Trimingham – On the beach

I wrote a bit about Trimingham a few weeks ago, it was canvas really, the backdrop, the beach is the deep history. Being what it is and how quiet it can be we went back. There was a bitter driving Northerly, ice bearing, even the hardy fishermen had all packed up and...
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Coasting: Caister

Coasting: Caister

Jan 29, 2015 |

March 2013, a scouring North Easterly for a few weeks changed the profile of Caister (and Hopton) beaches, revealing...

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Coasting: Morston

Coasting: Morston

Nov 20, 2014 |

This isn't really my home Coast, I grew up with The stretch from Mundesley in the middle, awareness stretching from...

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Coasting: Walcott

Coasting: Walcott

Sep 12, 2014 |

We used to go to Walcott quite a lot when I was a kid, it's was and is all concrete, groynes and flat inland space,...

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Coasting: Horsey

Coasting: Horsey

Sep 8, 2014 |

Horsey is a curious area, it's always felt like slightly dead ground to me, for the uninitiated it is just to the...

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