Brancaster Beach is an amazing place here in Norfolk, and now that the holiday season is over, it's going back to the deserted beach we selfishly love and wish no-one else knew about. During the winter months when we walk the dogs, we are often the only people about. But the summer months bring the tourists out on force and the place comes alive. The car park fills, the shop opens and the beach fills with families of busy parents and delighted children building sandcastles and demanding ice-creams, the far end of the beach is busy with kite-surfers tearing up and down like crazed dragonflies and the driving range is peppered with golf balls from golfers endlessly hitting them like they are aiming for some imaginary target.
The contrast is lovely, but the quiet empty winter months are our favourite.
The building in the picture is the Golf Course Clubhouse, the only building around and if you take a left when you pass it from the car park and walk till you come to an inlet where the sea makes a lagoon at high tide and cuts it off at low tide, you can almost always find seals lazing on the far banks or staring at you from the water. Its magical and the beach stretches for what seems like miles when the the tides out so the dogs can run to their hearts content and they always return from the beach completely exhausted and happy.
It's well worth a visit to anyone visiting this area.
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