Checked out of the Black Horse at Donington on Bain (8/10, excellent value for money and very friendly) and headed straight for Skegness. Huge sandy beach, wind turbines (132kV from the off-shore substation to land via an undersea cable).
Went on the pier. Quiet.
Back towards town the vendors were starting to open their souvenir and fast food stalls. There was a smell of fried food and candy floss. All of the rides were closed.
We bought a coffee and paid 20p to go to the loo.
From the Black Horse we’d driven south-east, high up on the Wolds, pheasants everywhere, more kestrels than we’ve seen in all of the past year. Then we dropped down to an expanse of flatlands, flat as a mirror, through large fields of dark green cabbage and green and red curly kale and cavolo nero and cauliflower.
We went to RSPB Frampton Marshes. There were lots of birds: wigeon, gadwall, lapwings, waders, goldfinches, linnets, etc. We walked up the end of the reserve and looked out over the expanse of marsh towards the Wash.
We bought sandwiches for lunch at a petrol station and ate them parked next to a church on the outskirts of Boston. Then we went via Kings Lynn to RSPB Snettisham.
The tide was right out, so no sight of the water at all, just a huge expanse of mud which seemed to fill all of the Wash. Ducks, redshank, greenshank, peregrine, greylags and a honking flock of Brent geese flying over.
Half an hour to The White Horse at Brancaster Staithe. Pint of Woodforde’s Wherry. Dinner: Brancaster oysters, salad, sea trout with caviar. Very nice. Afterwards sat and looked out of the nighttime marshes.