Wells Next The Sea

This afternoon I drove down to Wells Next The Sea where I parked in town and walked down to the beach and back, around three and a half miles in total.  The weather was lovely and the tide was just starting to come in so while the sandbanks and mudflats in the harbour were visible as I set off, they were covered on the way back.  The inshore lifeboat was out on a rescue; walkers often get stranded on the beach when the tide comes in as they don't realise that the sea fills channels behind them so they can't get back, but clearly there were no casualties on this occasion.  A lone seal was bobbing about in the water nearby, poking his head out of the water to see what was going on.

On the way back I saw this sculpture; the Lifeboat Horse.  It was displayed by the artist in the harbour in 2018 and subsequently bought by the local community so that it could remain in town.  It represents the horse that used to drag the lifeboat from the town harbour to the sea before the lifeboat station was rebuilt nearer to the beach.