A visit to a different landscape in eastern England...the Norfolk Broads.The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads are Britains largest protected wetland with a status of a national park. This partially man made landscape was formed by the sea level raising to fill the major peat excavations that took place between the 12th and 14th centuries. Dawn near Ludham on the River Thurne.
River Thurne.
Ludham Staithe and bridge.
Miles of Reed beds....the largest in England...source of most of the thatched roofs seen dotted all over the country.
Brief encounter....Nicholas Crane, geographer, journalist and author...well known through the TV series Coast..and Great British Journeys....enjoying a sailing holiday.
Cormorants making use of a Windmill sail.
How Hill.
River Ant...or should it be the River Swan.
The infamous Potter Heigham Bridge....implicated in the decapping of many boats.
River Bure.
Near Wroxham....and a car at the front.
Black Swan.
Heron....hitching a ride.
Wroxham Bridge.
George Formby once lived here.
South Walsham Broad.
Sutton Staithe.
Sutton Broad.
