A Trip on the River Bure

On the Sunday of our holiday in Norfolk, we did the shopping. When you are self-catering, the provisions for the week need to be sorted out. Fortunately, there was a Tesco's a couple of miles down the road from the camp, so we spent the morning there. The weather wasn't brilliant after the storm the night before, so in the afternoon we went and shivered on the beach. The wife and myself shivered, that is, the kids got stuck in building sandcastles and didn't seem affected by the cool seabreeze.
On the Monday, we took a drive up to Wroxham. This place is one of the biggest centres for boating on the Broads. Norfolk is famous for it's Broads. (Not an American lady of dubious quality.)The Broads started life as old peat diggings which ran parallel to the rivers of Norfolk. Over time they were flooded, and now provide miles of navigable waterways for trading and pleasure craft.
We decided to take a pleasure cruise up the River Bure and I took this photo of a Heron contemplating were it's dinner was going to come from. At a sedate 3 mph the trip was going to last 1 1/2 hours calling at a couple of Broads on the way.
When we got to Salhouse Broad(I think it was called Salhouse.) there were row upon row of sailing dinghies. This Broad is home to the Norfolk Sailing club and the guy giving the commentary said that on race days he can't get the boat in because of all the yachts flying around the place. Further around the Broad is a Norfolk Wherry, moored all by itself. Wherry's used to be the main cargo shifting vessels of Norfolk before the combustion engine was invented. This one was built in the latter half of the 1800's. There are only 3 wherry's left today and this is one of them, which is privately owned.
Back at the camp I dropped the kids off at the Elle the Elephant club whilst the wife and I had a couple of hours peace.
....to be continued.