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Holkham Beach
Our plan was to walk from Wells Next The Sea to Brancaster along the beach. We parked in the main Wells car park. From here you walk along the causeway towards the beach. This section is over 2 km! For me quite boring, however you might find it otherwise.
Once on the beach, turn left. At this part of the beach it can be quite busy especially in the summer. As you walk along the nice beach huts are on your left. Fairly soon the crowds thin and you might have the beach all to yourself, or at worst just a few other walkers. Walking in sand can be very tiring, even more so if it is a hot day (ours was). Eventually you reach Holkham Gap now over 5 km into the walk. Here you have to find a way across a tidal stream, walk inland some, or take your boots and socks off.
Continue along the beach. Be warned! There is a nudist section (we discovered). I said to my wife “Jane, it looks like that man has no clothes on” sure enough he was naked. Well he would be on a nudist beach LOL!. If this kind of thing offends you do not do this walk.
Half way along this stretch we stopped for lunch. We sat in the dunes, it was really pleasant.
Eventually you reach the mouth of the river Burn you cannot wade through this so you need to walk inland towards Burnham Overy Staithe. By this time you have walked over 10km along the beach.
By the time we reach the village we were exhausted. At the main road there is a pub. We had just missed the bus back to Wells so a nice cool lemonade and lime in the pub garden went down well. The buses run about every 20 minutes. We decided that Brancaster was too far for this days walking so we caught the bus back to Wells. Once back there we changed our footwear and walked around the town. In all a really pleasant day.
