Mundesley June 2025

I spent the first day of my holiday exploring Mundesley. One of my first journeys was a bus trip to nearby Cromer – my bus pass worked there but I had to pay £0.50 per journey or £1.00 for a day for my little Norfolk Terrier, Maisie. The image opposite is of Cromer Pier. While I was in Cromer I thought that I would have the famous Cromer Crab – I have never tasted Crab before – but I found it bland and nothing to write home about.

Maisie had several incidents on Trimingham Beach – although I was in Mundesley, Trimingham Beach was the nearest and was accessed by a nearby road down the cliffs. There were usually a few fishermen fishing on the beach with their long rods at 45 degrees. Firstly, Maisie managed to eat a rusty fishing hook with a short piece of line attached. I managed to get the hook out without her swallowing it but next day when she toileted she passed a length of line, which was still attached to her body, and I had to pull it out. Then she ate something she picked up off the beach, maybe rotten fish, and was sick in the evening and off her food the next day. Walking along the beach a fisherman had the lid off of his bait box and she stole a Squid from his bait box. I saw it in her mouth from a few yards away and it was 2″ or 3″ out of her mouth as she ate it. She survived all these incidents.

In the following days I visited Cley-Next- the Sea and Blakeney Quay/Morston Quay. I took an image of the Windmill at Cley in the Gallery above. The landscape at Blakeney is the star of the show and Morston Quay, is part of Blakeney National Nature Reserve which is internationally important for its habitats and offers great wildlife viewing opportunities all year round. Blakeney Point is home to England’s largest Grey Seal colony with around 3,000 white pups born annually between October and January – see the image in the gallery above. During the summer months thousands of ground-nesting birds also breed on the reserve. I booked a boat trip to see the seals in Blakeney Basin, which is never more the 3 1/2 feet deep. During the trip (Maisie went with me in the boat) we were told that the harbour is only one of three free harbours in the UK.