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Maisie and Fred's Excellent Adventure
playmofire:
On the Sunday morning, Diane and I went for a walk along the beach and sea defences from Old Hunstanton to Heacham. It was a brilliantly sunny day but with a bitterly cold north-east wind which we were walking pretty well straight into. At Heacham there is the national lavender centre and also a good lunch. We have a number of lavenders in our garden and needed to replace one, so here was our opportunity to check that the type we wanted was available and then buy it next day on the way home. It was a bracing walk, and after lunch and a look round the lavender centre shop and gardens we set off back, by road this time.
As you can see, the area is very flat and in fact just to the right of the sea defences the land is below sea level and remains so for some way inland. Heacham is about a mile inland and is threatened by flooding whenever there are very high tides, especially if there is a north-westerly wind blowing as that is blowing the sea towards the shore. The whole north Norfolk coast was severely flooded in 1953 more than 80 people were drowned. The shuttering on the holiday homes isn't to keep burglars out but to keep the sea out and often the holiday homes are raised above ground level so, hopefully, if the sea does flood over the defences, the living accommodation will be safe.
Lastly, there's an other moody seascape from Hunstanton beach.
I hope you enjoyed Maisie and Fred's trip to North Norfolk. The next trip they made was in May in an old bus to the market town of Hawes in North Yorkshire, which I plan to post shortly. If you have any comments, please remember the separate comments topic.
Klickus Mobilius:
Last Friday, Fred and Maisie went to San Francisco to see the King Tut exhibit at the de Young Museum. They stayed over at Kaethe's house, and we all went together to see the exhibit. Before hopping on the bus, we went to the Marina where they had me take their picture with Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
Klickus Mobilius:
We took the bus to the de Young since parking is at a premium in the city.
Klickus Mobilius:
Here are Fred and Maisie outside the de Young Museum. Unfortunately, photography is not allowed inside the museum so this is the last photo.
Gustavo:
Fred & Masie
Rio
Parque das Ruínas, in Santa Tereza neighbourhood, Rio de Janeiro, is an interesting place, not very high, but that allows a good vision of a pretty vast part of central Rio de Janeiro!
(One of the famous Carioca rocks, the Sugar Loaf,
Eiffel Tower height, around 300 km.)
(Downtown, at the back, the Rio-Niterói bridge.)
(The Guanabara bay way in/out from/into the ocean ...
The Portuguese arrived there.)
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