The early morning of 9th March 2026 I’m peering through a heavy mist. But it’s very early yet, it’ll clear (such confidence). So I make my way across town to join my daughter, for this morning we are heading south across our county border. Please join us

Destination #1: Gunton Meadow & Gunton Woods Nature Reserve

9th March 2026

🔼 I enter the woods from the meadow and turn back to take this photo… cos I have a love of bridges and gates 🔽 Clearly a fairly recent addition to the woods. Loads of cherry trees here, but for now we’re happy to see the primroses and daffodils

9th March 2026

9th March 2026

🔼 Into the woods-proper, mist thickening, more daffs 🔽 Flowers and leaves together, this must be a cherry-plum tree but we’ve never visited when it’s in fruit to confirm that

9th March 2026

9th March 2026

🔼 No sign yet of the mist dissolving… 🔽 but plentiful signs of spring arriving with leaves now erupting

9th March 2026

Destination #2: Gunton Cliffs and Gunton Warren, another nature reserve but of a very different nature. Beware where you tread, adders sleep here

9th March 2026

🔼 The mist is thicker here than it was in the woods 🔽 See? We cannot see the sea!

9th March 2026

9th March 2026

🔼 My favourite shot of the day! The heather might be crisped and drying but the gorse flowers are a rage of vibrancy 🔽 The Norfolk and Suffolk coasts were thoroughly defended during World War II, but those same coasts have since been subject to rapid erosion, the WWII relics swept into the sea. Except here! A look out or a gun position? I’m not sure

9th March 2026

🔽 Where cliff meets beach a natural spring floods out

9th March 2026

🔽 And we can’t leave the shore without seeing seabirds! A cormorant and 3 great black backed gulls, one mature, two immature

9th March 2026

And having arrived here, we’re now off to find some lunch. Hope you enjoyed. And no, that mist didn’t clear, not even by late afternoon