Tuesday/Wednesday, 8th/9th May
Lowestoft provided a comfortable night at the Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club marina (lots of Royal bits round here!), but the town seemed rather down-at-heel. The 'Red Herring Trail' offers a route to view older parts of the place; I tried it but the trail went cold. All was not lost, and here's a picture of Britain's easternmost Post Office!
Given the state of tides along the Norfolk coastline it was not straightforward to visit the pretty places like Aldeburgh and Wells, so that will have to be another time. Instead we headed out for Grimsby, past Great Yarmouth, busy with vessels servicing North Sea wind farms and gas fields.
It was a beautiful evening with cruising chute and empty seas. The forecast, alas, suggested horrid weather in the next day or two, so rather than face too many days in Grimsby, we decided to push on to Scarborough....and after many more hours, including memorable views of wonderful birdlife off Flamborough Head, here we are, in Scarborough. (28 hours, 139 miles - longest stretch so far)
(The route is here; but I think the battery on the GPS logger ran out because we didn't stop there!)
http://www.a-trip.com/tracks/view/102973
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