Time for old friends, and a few seals too.

Norfolk Seal, just visible!

Two years or so ago my cousin Jean died. We were close, but she lived in the Cotswolds which is a little way away. At the time we had been meaning to go up to see her.  The trouble was that we were both busy and  so we kept putting it off.  And then, all of a sudden she had gone and I was really sorry that I had not managed to make the time to take the trip.

With this in mind we have been spending a lot of our spare time this autumn visiting friends and family who live a little way away.  We visited my uncle in Leigh on Sea a week or so ago, and this weekend we went up to Norfolk to see Seb and Jez, two old friends who have recently moved to East Anglia from Kent.

They live just inland from Bacton, which apparently is a less fashionable part of the county than the 'fashionable' north coast.  It is wonderfully quiet and there are some nice sandy beaches, although they are rapidly eroding in places.  We were dispatched to a place where seals are often in evidence.  I gather that these shy beasts are getting fed up with being stared at by boatloads of people in Blakeney and that many have migrated to the quieter east coast. They find that the offshore sea defences attract and trap a lot of fish for dinner! We were lucky enough to see quite a lot swimming out at sea, and although one came very close,  none came up onto the beach.

Nick and Rendle on the Beach with sea defences just visible