Spurn Point

Backblipped for 3rd July

For another fun activity day we had booked a tour of Spurn Point, given by a guide from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Although we have been before, this time we were conveyed on a Unimog, which is capable of driving across loose sand, the roadway having been partially destroyed in a storm at the end of 2013. The old lighthouse is now open to visitors so most of us climbed up, entering the rooms of displays en route, (though I wish they had chosen the accompanying music more carefully as I find continuous play of two notes most distracting) for unique views of the length of the spit and passing traffic in the Humber estuary.

The Unimog then took us to the point, for a walk among the vegetation (elder, sea buckthorn, bramble and wild rose in particular) that has colonised since the end of the war, when it was open beach with defence installations. A fully-equipped visitor centre is planned near the point, and, although there are strong objections from the few private residences near the access, and it is to be hoped that any increase in traffic is sympathetically controlled, better public facilities are certainly needed.

As we left in late afternoon we noticed a bird in flight that we could not identify so followed it until it settled. See extra photo (heavily cropped) of a barn owl, a first for us.