A day exploring - first to Bawdsey East Lane, a well known fossil site for sharks teeth. We parked at East lane carpark, but mistakenly turned left along the shingle ridge rather than right along the beach with the London Clay exposures. You can never do too much research! Anyway a pleasant start to the day, even if all I returned with was a pocket full of strange shaped bits of flint! We'll know next time. One thing that continues to be of interest is the sheer number of defences, this time a WW11 gun battery and another Napoleonic Martello tower. The tower looks really shabby - but inside is a classy private property.
After this we went on to Orford Ness where we had views across to the military buildings. As we had Rocky we couldn't visit, so we walked along the sea wall a little, looking across to the site, but to be honest it was pretty cold and windy, so we bought some Pinney's oysters and returned to our van for tea and cake!
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| Along the sea wall at Bawdsey, with the shingle beach dropping off steeply to the right. |
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| Towards the Martello tower from the battery. |
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| Looking back along the correct beach - sadly by now the tide had come in! |
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| A hasty retreat from the beach. |
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| The Martello Tower...a 'very Suffolk view' ..as is below. |
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| A resting Swallow. |
..and then on to Orford Ness....
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| Looking across to the shingle bar... |
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| Returning along the seawall. |
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