Adventures with Tallulah: Heacham Beach

Monday 17th November

Mileage Start 14956 - End 15078 = 122 miles.

So Simon's day off had rolled round again and it was time to take Tallulah on a trip. We chose to go to the beach at Snettisham in Norfolk. It was a cold day but quite bright and I particularly wanted to go to the coast as I wanted to see if I could find any sea glass.

I have become interested in sea glass after seeing the beautiful jewelry that can be made with it. There are some really clever sellers on Etsy who make absolutely beautiful stuff. As you know, I am hoping to try out different crafts and I would like to try my hand at this. First things first though; you can't make sea glass jewelry without some sea glass!

We initially drove to Snettisham which is the nearest beach to us. We have been there many, many times over the years with the children as it was the nearest beach when we lived in Peterborough too. It's about 60 odd miles so not exactly close but makes a good day trip.

What we hadn't remembered (or maybe it wasn't always there) is that there is a height barrier for the beach car park at Snettisham. Poor Tallulah was denied entry.

As there wasn't anywhere else to park up we (or rather Simon) reversed up the road past several vehicles and then executed a neat three point turn so that we could head on to the next beach down the road which is Heacham.

Heacham beach has a lot of shells and our children always called it the shell beach. That name has stuck. Fortunately there are no barriers and we were able to park easily. There was pretty much nobody else there except a few dog walkers and 2 old guys with metal detectors. I often wonder what they actually find? Seems a bit of an odd hobby to me but then we were there to scour the beach for sea glass which I guess some people would find equally odd!

It was really cold as there was quite a wind but there were lovely big blue skies; at least for a short while anyway! This part of the British coast has wonderful light which I think is to do with the big wide expanses of beach and the wide uninterrupted skies.