Log No 355. Tue 24th Jun 2014 - Burnham Deepdale to Shepherd's Port, 17 miles (5420 miles walked)

With a longer walk planned for today I started earlier at 07.20 and the weather was as forecast, blue sky and sunshine.

From the campsite I got back onto the Norfolk Coast Path between the houses and the salt marsh.

From the quay at Brancaster Staithe the path must generally be very wet as it was duck board nearly all the way to Brancaster making it a very easy half hour walk.

With no through access from Brancaster the NCP headed inland a bit so I stayed by the road for the 2 miles, going past Titchwell Bird Reserve and onto Thornham where I picked up the path again.

I went along the embankment by the creek to get to the dunes and I was expecting another sandy footpath but there was a hardcore path right the way round the coast to the car park near Holme-next-the-Sea.

The good path ended at the car park and it was back to a sandy path.

I didn't stay on it long as it was easier walking down on the beach where I could find harder packed sand.

There was some interesting cliffs at the north end of Hunstanton with what looked like 3 different types of rock. The top layer was a white rock, below that was a thin layer of a brick-red rock and the bottom layer was a softer brown rock.

There has been quite a bit of erosion on this small stretch of cliff.

I went into Hunstanton to do some shopping then got back onto the promenade.

Walking into Hunstanton I had watched a boat come into the shore and straight up the beach, I had thought it must be a type of hovercraft but it turned out to have wheels and a propeller.

There were 2 of these boats and they were running short tours and hoping to start a scheduled service to and from Skegness next year.

The NCP finishes here, in fact it only goes between Hunstanton and Cromer, but at the end of the seafront a footpath continued along a track.

The track was hard going as it had that much wind blown sand on it so I went back onto the beach for the final 2 hours walk to Diglea Caravan Park at Shepherd's Port where I had been offered a pitch at a much reduced rate. I arrived here at 14.00

Since lunch the sky had become increasingly cloudy and I was having the odd spots of rain. It stayed dry right up until I was putting the flysheet on the tent and then it rained for about an hour, so I had got here just in time.

It felt more like a normal days walk today having done 17 miles.