Visiting a Birds Paradise

Today didn't go as planned, whats new in my life, sun was shining good, planned taking a pack up, didn't  have anything in so didn't happen.   Bob took a Royal Wedding banner to put up at work, i waited in the car for him for about 1.5 hours, in the middle of which i was sent home to fetch an hammer.

Eventually, just after 12 noon, we got to our destination the long ole trip to Snetthisham.

Our plan was to do a 5 mile walk at snettisham, this was a Charles and Joy Boldero Walk from the EDP www.edp24.co.uk published on 9th April 2011.

It started off at Snettisham in the car park of the RSPB Reserve http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/s/snettisham/, the walk was in two halfs of 2.5 miles, the first part was a linear walk for 2.5 miles, getting back to the car park, the second part is a circular 2.5 mile walk.

We had wonderful views  of the lakes and birds, it was very noisy with the Geese, Gulls, Ducks, there was hardly any people around, it was lovely.

 It was a low tide, and we had a good view of the mud flats.

 

The Old Jetty

 

 

We got back to the car and i was all set to have a short break, and do the 2nd part of the walk, but Bob didn't want to, so we came home.

The Kissing Gates Walk

Yesterday i met mum at Snettisham Church, and we started our walk with the dogs Spot and Trixie, we went up through Hall Farm, cut across fields on to Norton Hill, saw some wonderful houses, it was peaceful and idyllic.
We met the main road and went down Common Road, there were 7 horses in the field we should have gone through so we went via the road to meet the main road we then crossed the By Pass and started walking through Ken Hill Wood, it was lovely and sunny without being too hot.
We saw Fungi

Robert Herb

Grey Squirrel

We steadily went uphill, wow it was hard work at times.
At the top we had quite a long rest.
Then started downhill towards Beach Road.
We went down beach road, and across the A149, and down Station Road, and turned off towards Snettisham Watermill, and then followed the river, again this was idyllic.
We saw Mallards

And continued along upto the main road crossed over and continued through Snettisham Housing Estate, up to Park Farm, followed the path through the back of Park Farm passing through a field with goats in.
Then round back to the Church and the finish, pretty worn out by then.
The walk said it was 3 3/4 miles.
However, my pedometer, said we walked 13272 steps and 6.07 miles.

4th August 2010

Walk after Work

After work me and Bob took Spot a walk down Snettisham beach, we heard a cuckoo but unfortunately didn't see one.


We saw the family of Magpies again

And saw and heard 2 RAF Jets.
I would have liked to go a bit further, but Bob was having breathing difficulties.

1st July 2010