17 May 2008

This was a shortish walk over the salt marsh to the sea and then heading south towards Saltfleet Haven, walked parallel to the Haven then back round along the road to our start...

I started by taking a photo of some cracked mud...


Then as we got to the edge of the salt marsh where it meets the beach we came across this dried dyke bed... The whole of the salt marsh is punctuated by these dykes. They're good to jump over in summer...



Someone has placed this fallen tree into the sand here... Whoever did it has dug quite a way down as we couldn't shift it...


And then it's down to the sea...


I tried to get it closer, but didn't want to get too wet...


There are lots of wormcasts on this beach as the tide goes out...


So I thought I'd see how close up to a cast I could get...


Tide Mark, the black marks left by the tide are coal slack, left from "The Try" a coal carrying ship that was wrecked about a mile and half further south on the coast at a place called Rimac on February 19th 1882...


Then it was off to the haven and Jack found mud... and kept laying down in this hedge to clean himself... He failed...


I think he's fed up of trying to clean himself at this point...


He can't ever stay still...


and then he's back and trying to clean himself again, but why?


I ask why because he's soon back in the mud fetching branches that Dave threw in for him...


I'm glad he's not my dog...


And a view looking up Saltfleet Haven towards the main A1031 Mablethorpe to Cleethorpes road...