Scolt Head Island 24th July

Arriving at the little harbour of Burnham Overy Staithe I felt the extreme bad temper caused by an injured ankle and too much time spent indoors melting away. Hobbling down to the marshy creek close to the ice cream van there are people basking in the sunshine despite the slightly fettered smell and kids covered head to toe in marsh mud climbing and sliding up and down the banks. We walk up the creek half in the water half on the muddy flats in the vague direction of the sea. People gradually thin out and we can only see other groups of ones twos tramping out in the same direction. As the tide is going out you could definitely swim or canoe out to the island. Once on the island (really it looks like a massive sand dune) there is some further walking/hobbling to the sea. Which is incredibly warm and clear not that deep but we float around and then bake on our own sand bank like seals. This is how summer is supposed to be! Because it is in every weekend supplements best beach guide recently+ school holidays there were quite a lot of people but it still felt empty and isolated. The added bonus of swimming in the creek I think makes it one of my favourite swims.
JJ