Sunday 25th August 2024 is a UK Bank Holiday and traditionally the last of summer. We hop a bus as far as Acle, “the Gateway to the Broads,” but we start out early before the traffic and the heat build up. Please join us…
25th August 2024
Of course I take loads of shots of boats. Broads cruisers seen here moored at Acle staithe… the one below catches my eye as being grander than the rest
25th August 2024
25th August 2024
More humble is this cruiser at what looks like a private mooring; a heron stands guard. Below, this is the main Broads river, the Bure, empty of boats at the moment, everyone still having breakfast
25th August 2024
Below: I can’t resist its lines as they whisper encouragement to my camera
25th August 2024
25th August 2024
For walkers the mile or so trek from Acle to Acle Bridge and the main access to River Bure is… not particularly safe (photo taken early before the traffic begins). But hey, here’s a path especially for us!
25th August 2024
Another shot I can’t resist as we cross a footbridge over one of the many drains. There are dragonflies here but they won’t stay still!
25th August 2024
25th August 2024
Youngsters always know where to go for food… here at a riverside cafe, where this cormorant struts like a medieval heraldic device!
25th August 2024
25th August 2024
As the Bure wends its way across the former floodplain it provides us a shot of both holiday cruisers and weekend yachters
25th August 2024
Acle Bridge… road and pub/restaurant. Breakfast over, those cruisers are on the move now
25th August 2024
Alas, that’s all for now folks. See Tuesday Treats for up-close and personal with flora and fauna
Hope you enjoyed
crispina kemp 
beautiful photos and that heron (was that the name?) was guarding. I love it! I wish I saw one of those in Sweden
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We have herons but we also have egrets (the white member of the family)
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Oh wow! That’s amazing!
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The egrets are a relatively new addition, arriving (and staying) some time after I’d moved here. We now have Little, Great and Cattle Egrets (so I believe) but I’ve only seen Little and Great.
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Beautiful picture Crispina. Hope it was a pleasurable walk.
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It was indeed. With a riverside cafe for coffee and pastries 🙂
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That’s lovely 🥰
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Wonderful photos! Love the boats! Why is it called Broads, because its broad and flat? Where is this exactly?
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You’ve hit it right, Broads because they’re broad. They’re flooded peat diggings from medieval period and they sit between Norwich and Norfolk’s east/north east coast with a little splash into Suffolk to the south (that’s UK, not east coast US!)
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