I had to look back at old online photo albums to see how many times we had been here before, and this would be our fourth visit. The last couple of times we'd brought Donna's mum across with us but this time as we hadn't made plans due to being a little unsure about the weather, we went on our own.
The trip over is not a quick one when you consider that as the crow flies it's only about 60 miles, the first half is mainly motorway so a tad boring but quick, then the second half through the flat Lincolnshire countryside with it's narrow lanes slow but much more to please the eye.
As we'd set off around 7:45am we managed to get parked up in the main car-park which we had never managed on previous visits, a bonus as we saved £4 and didn't have to walk across the muddy fields of the overflow car-parks.
It's probably a couple of weeks late for the peak of the Seal breeding season so many of the pups had already fattened up and headed out on their own into the waters of the North Sea, however the sands were still alive with a good few hundred Seals, with plenty of pups right next to the fence at the visitor area. Some may wonder why people return when to be honest you could say that most of the Seals look the same as they did the year before, and the year before that. But, that's not the point, it's nature at it's finest and we are lucky to have such a place less than 2hrs drive from home.
We meandered up and down for a couple of hours before setting off back home. And just as forecast by the weather apps, it was lovely in the morning and started raining as we arrived back home so our timing couldn't have been better.
The trip over is not a quick one when you consider that as the crow flies it's only about 60 miles, the first half is mainly motorway so a tad boring but quick, then the second half through the flat Lincolnshire countryside with it's narrow lanes slow but much more to please the eye.
As we'd set off around 7:45am we managed to get parked up in the main car-park which we had never managed on previous visits, a bonus as we saved £4 and didn't have to walk across the muddy fields of the overflow car-parks.
It's probably a couple of weeks late for the peak of the Seal breeding season so many of the pups had already fattened up and headed out on their own into the waters of the North Sea, however the sands were still alive with a good few hundred Seals, with plenty of pups right next to the fence at the visitor area. Some may wonder why people return when to be honest you could say that most of the Seals look the same as they did the year before, and the year before that. But, that's not the point, it's nature at it's finest and we are lucky to have such a place less than 2hrs drive from home.
We meandered up and down for a couple of hours before setting off back home. And just as forecast by the weather apps, it was lovely in the morning and started raining as we arrived back home so our timing couldn't have been better.
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