Selma: “Don’t hang out that lazily! Come on, get up, we want to bid farewell to the summer. It was so sweet and has deserved it!”
So our busy Selma requested to make it to the Blakeney Point for saying “Goodbye summer!” and taking a lot of vitamin sea. Siri checked the tide to ensure an easy four miles walk on sand instead of shingle to this National Nature Reserve. The Blakeney Point is a long spit of land into the sea, it’s a “hook of sand”, as Siri calls it, and therefore we just follow the beach observed by curious seals. Out there it’s silent, so silent you can hear the earth turning – if the terns wouldn’t be so noisy.
Selma: “Sitzt doch nicht so transusig herum. Hopp, hopp, munter aufgestanden, wir wollen uns vom Sommer verabschieden, der hat’s verdient!“
So fordert uns die emsige Selma auf, zum Blakeney Point zu gehen, um “Sommer ade” zu sagen und Vitamin Sea zu tanken. Siri schaut schnell nach, ob die Tide passt, so dass wir locker auf dem Sand die über sechs Kilometer zu diesem National Nature Reserve hinausgehen können. Es ist eine Nehrung oder ein “Sandhaken“, wie Siri zu sagen pflegt, und deswegen geht es immer am Meer entlang, oft begleitet von Seehunden. Draußen ist es so still, dass wir die Erde sich drehen hören – wenn nicht die Seeschwalben krakelen.
We are quite astonished that we hardly meet any people walking to the Point even when the weather is great. Out there is the world of huge sandy beaches, the world of terns and seals; the first are shy and noisy, the second are curious and mostly silent. You meet people a few yards right and left from the car park only. There are the fishermen too and Siri and Selma erected their red tent there as well.
Stets sind wir erstaunt, dass wir selbst bei bestem Wetter fast nie einem Menschen begegnen, wenn wir in diese Welt kilometerbreiter Sandstrände hinauswandern. Hier herrschen die Seeschwalben und Seehunde, die einen scheu und laut, die anderen neugierig und meist still. Menschen findet man nur gleich rechts und links vom Parkplatz, wo sich auch die Angler tummeln. Siri und Selma haben übrigens ihr rotes Zelt etwas abseits von denen aufgebaut.
The constantly changing colour of the sea attracts our eye, quietens our mind, and deepens our thinking. We never succeeded to grasp the colour of the sea with words or in a picture. Looking out from the beach we could see the polar ice shelf, if the world wouldn’t be round, the air too dense, and our eyes too weak. They say, out here is the kingdom of the mermaids, those beings who Paracelsus described in detail in his „Liber de nymphis, sylvis, pygmaeis et salamandris“ (1589). “Mermaids“, Siri explains excitedly, “feeling torn between the world of people and of fish. They know a secret but to disclose it brings harm to themselves and people. Poets like Homer, Andersen, Goethe, Heine, Kafka and Wilde, as we learned in our Fayrie-School, wrote about those beings of the waters.“
Die ständig sich ändernde Farbe des Meeres beschäftigt unser Auge, beruhigt den Geist und vertieft das Denken. Nie gelang es uns, die Farbe des Meers in Wort oder Bild zu fassen. Gehen wir am Strand entlang und schauen hinaus über die Wellen, könnten wir das polare Eisschelf sehen, wäre die Erde nicht rund, die Luft zu dick und unsere Augen nicht zu schwach. Hier soll das Reich der Seejungfrauen sein, die bereits Paracelsus in seinem „Liber de nymphis, sylvis, pygmaeis et salamandris“ (1589) genau beschrieb. “Nixen“, erklärt uns Siri aufgregt, “fühlen sich hin- und hergerissen zwischen der Welt der Menschen und der der Fische. Sie tragen ein Geheimnis, das zu lüften ihnen und den Menschen Unglück bringt. Dichter wie Homer, Andersen, Goethe, Heine, Kafka und Wilde, wie wir in der Feenschule lernten, ließen solche Wasserwesen in ihren Texten auftreten.”

Don’t you think this warden has got the best of all summer jobs? Siri and Selma have applied for a fayrie wardenship at the Point for next summer.
The green sea rises our spirits, the sommery blue sea brings joy. When our nordic sea is rough, like later in autumn, it turns brown, at sunset it blushes, at storms it’s getting black after it became grey like the warships. But we have a bright day today. So we are at the sandbanks two hours later, where seals like to sunbathe and digest. Here the terns are screeching and bravely dive deep into the sea. Soon they will say “Goodbye summer” as well and off they fly South.
Das grüne Meer, so wird gesagt, erhebt unseren Geist, das blaue, sommerliche Meer beglückt uns. Ist unser nordisches Meer aufgewühlt, wie später im Herbst, gibt es sich in bräunlichen Tönen, beim Sonnenuntergang errötet es, bei Gewittern ärgert es sich schwarz, nachdem es zuvor kriegsschiffsgrau anlief. Aber der heutige Tag ist heiter und so sind wir nach zwei Stunden bei den Seehundbänken, wo die Seeschwalben betörend hoch in der Luft kreischen, um sich mit Kühnheit in die Wogen zu stürzen. Bald sagen auch sie dem Sommer ade und auf geht’s in den Süden.
Wishing you all the best from the sunny sea. We just have tropical days and nights here and that in the middle of Semptember
Grüße von der sommerlichen See. Z.Zt. haben wir noch heiße Tage und tropische Nächte und das an der Küste Nord Norfolks im September
The Fab Four of Cley
.
.
© Text and illustrations, Hanne Siebers and Klausbernd Vollmar, Cley next the Sea, 2016
Wunderschöner Beitrag und traumhafte Fotos. ☀️😎 Liebe Grüße Maren 💚
LikeLiked by 5 people
Guten Morgen, liebe Maren,
was für einen schönen Gravatar du hast 🙂
Prima, dass dir unser Beitrag gefällt.
Mit den besten Grüßen vom heute plötzlich herbstlichen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dankeschön, den zeichnete mein Freund. 😊
LikeLiked by 1 person
Das hat er toll gemacht, finden wir vier
Alles Gute
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Er ist Comiczeichner in NYC. Danke ich sage es ihm heute, da freut er sich.💚😊
LikeLiked by 3 people
zu recht!
Schönes Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Fabulous photos. Makes me wish I could be there.
LikeLiked by 4 people
Thank you very much, dear Anneli 🙂
Wishing you a GREAT weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
And you too!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Is this a National Trust site? Is there a particular place you would recommend starting a walk in this area? Lovely photos of course 🙂
LikeLiked by 4 people
Yes, it’s a NT site. There is one place only where you can start walking the Point. It’s the car park at Cley Eye, at the end of the Beach Road in Cley (off the coast Road, on the Sheringham-site of our village). The car park isn’t NT but NWT (Norfolk Wildlife Trust).
Will we see you there?
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Yes, I’m thinking so. I would like to come at a time when the seals are there, as I think that would appeal particularly to my family. I am thinking spring or summer?
LikeLiked by 2 people
We have good news for you; the seal colony is a permanent one! 🙂 But of course, to visit the Point by boat, there’re several companies offering seal trips, spring, summer or early autumn are all great. The “Cley holiday season” last from Easter to Mid October. (Please correct me, if I’m wrong).
It would be so nice to see you here (or there, as I’m in Bonn right now 😉 )
LikeLiked by 2 people
If you want to see the pups it’s best to come in the beginning of the year. But there are many seals the whole year around as Dina already wrote.
See you
Klausbernd
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ok, thanks for this, I had been thinking Spring might be a good time.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Early spring would be ideal.
Good luck!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!
LikeLike
Guten Morgen, ihr lieben vier!
Sehr schöne Fotos vom Meer bei Sonnenschein! Den Sonnenschein haben wir zur Zeit hier in der großen Stadt ebenso. Sie brennt unbarmherzig zwischen dem Häusermeer. Ich bin da mehr der Nordmensch – mir reichen 22 Grad schon aus, ich brauche keine 32 Grad.
Im Moment beschäftige ich mich mit Sedna und ihrem ersten Mann – dem Hundemann, der ihr von ihrem Vater an die Seite gestellt wurde. Gleich werde ich den Hundemann zeichnen und mir dabei euer blaues Meer vor der Haustür vorstellen.
Liebe Grüße von Susanne
LikeLiked by 3 people
Guten Morgen, liebe Susanne,
es ist kaum zu glauben, gestern war es noch hochsommerliches Shorts-und-T-Shirt-Wetter und heute ist es herbstlich kühl und regnerisch. Etwas ganz Neues nach so langer Zeit Hochsommer, sehr gut für den Garten, der Regen bitternötig hatte.
Uns reichen auch 22 Grad aus und wenn’s über 25 Grad geht, sehen wir das wie die Engländer als schlechtes Wetter an, bei dem man lieber im Haus bleibt.
Wir wünschen dir gutes Gelingen beim zeichnen des Hundemanns.
Kennst du das Gedicht von Tucholsky “Ideal”? Da gibt es die Zeile: “vorn die Ostsee und hinten die Friedrichstraße”.
Ganz liebe Grüße vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Nein, lieber Klausbernd, ich kenne das Gedicht nicht. Ich bin im Moment familier sehr traurig und angespannt, deshalb heute nur einen kleinen Gruß als Antwort, Liebe Grüße an euch alle, Susanne
LikeLiked by 1 person
Liebe Susanne,
über deinen Blog haben wir soeben die traurige Nachricht erhalten.
Vom ganzen Herzen unser tief empfundenes Mitleid.
In Gedanken bei euch in Berlin,
Hanne und Klausbernd
LikeLike
Guten Morgen – gerade noch – liebe Susanne,
das ist die erste Strophe dieses ironischen Gedichts
Kurt Tucholsky
Das Ideal
Ja, das möchste:
Eine Villa im Grünen mit großer Terrasse,
vorn die Ostsee, hinten die Friedrichstraße;
mit schöner Aussicht, ländlich-mondän,
vom Badezimmer ist die Zugspitze zu sehn –
aber abends zum Kino hast dus nicht weit.
Wir hoffen alle stark und drücken dir fest Daumen und Flügelchen, dass bald deine familiäre Lage sich wieder entspannt.
Hier ist inzwischen noch einmal der Sommer zurückgekehrt 🙂
Mit ganz lieben Grüßen
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
My friends in Norfolk!
Beautiful images! This looks quite different to our Norwegian archipelago. My,that’s quite a walk to the Point, I’m not sure if I’d do that.
It was lovely to visit you and see Cley, it looks like a fairy tale village!
The summer was long and sweet up North too, just wonderful.
Love, hugs, and kisses xo
Tone and Jostein and Jon Olav says hello 🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Good morning, dear Tone,
well, walking the Point takes us usually a whole day with pinick in the dunes, swimming in the sea, and playing beach combers.
We are so happy that you and Jostein loved visiting Cley, our fairy tale village. Now you know why Siri and Selma our beloved Bookfayries are living here.
We had a very sweet and long summer as well, but the weather changed today – oh dear, we hope it wasn’t the effect of our saying “Good Bye” to the summer.
With lots of love xxx kisses and ooo hugs
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 2 people
Herrliche Aufnahmen von einer der schönsten Plätze dieser Welt.
Der September-Spätsommer in Frankfurt war wärmer als der Hochsommer, heute ist es vorbei.
Liebe grüße,
U+H
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hallihallo, liebe Ursel, liebert Herbert,
auch hier ist wie abgeschnitten der Sommer vorbei, auwei!
Ganz viel Feenhauch von uns Buchfeen
Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma
LikeLiked by 2 people
Guten Morgen, liebe Ursel,
vielen Dank für euren Kommentar.
Hier war es auch diesen Sommer ungewöhnlich heiß, aber durch die immerwährende Seebriese war’s erträglich.
Wir finden auch, dass der Blakeney Point hinter unserem Haus zu den schönsten Plätzen der Welt gehört – “gleich nach der Küste Nordost Grönlands”, wie unser lieber Master meint.
Macht’s gut und haltet euch wacker
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Dear friends, my Fab Four,
this is a fabulous place, the right spot to say goodbye to summer. I have “walked the Point” four or five times and I hope to be able to do it once or twice again before I get too old. Hope to catch up with you soon!
Have a great weekend,
Per Magnus
LikeLiked by 4 people
Good morning, dear Per Magnus,
we don’t think that there is a danger that you get to old walking the Point – not in the next 30 years. We keep our wings crossed.
Fayrie dust from your Bookfayries
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
LikeLike
Good mornig, our dear friend 🙂
you have to visit us again and we will walk the Point in a relaxed way. It’s a matter of the right timing. If it’s timed well, you easily walk on sand the whole way, but if you time it wrongly you have to walk most of the time on shingle. After an hour or so you get the feeling your feet are breaking off.
We wish you a GREAT weekend as well
Love xx
Dina and Klausbernd
LikeLike
It looks out of this world, like entering a different world altogether. Stunning photos and a lovely narrative!
I’ll cross my fingers for you, Siri and Selma; you’ll make great fayriewardens at Blakeney Point! 🙂
God helg!
Klem,
Hjerter ❤
LikeLiked by 4 people
Hi, dear Hjerter
you got it! The Point is Otherland.
Thanks for crossing your fingers for us. We are sure it will help.
Lots of fayrie dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
LikeLike
Hi, dear Hjerter,
our beloved Bookfayries are very excited if they would get accepted. We keep our fingers crossed.
We are happy that you like our post 🙂
Wishing you a fine weekend
KLEM xx
Dina and Klausbernd
LikeLike
What is the warden actually observing? Birds or seals?
Greetings from rainy Norway,
– at least you make summer end with good memories! 🙂
Hjerter ❤
LikeLiked by 3 people
Hei Hjerter <3,
the warden was counting the seals. The wardens at Blakeney point count the seals every day (!) but of course they are there for the birds too. A big part of the land towards BP is nogo for humans. And dogs. Can you believe it; on this last day at the point for us, visitors per boat went on land where the seal colony is and they brought their two dogs with them. The dogs where running free and scared the hell out of the seals. Humans are the biggest threat and the greatest idiots, if I may say so.
Ha en god helg,
klem fra Dina i Bonn x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Siri and Selma have got some help from pirate Snoopy and Woodstock, they all want to spend next summer at the point as assistant wardens, counting seals and birds and listen to the Earth rotating. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
WOW! Being wardens with pirate Snoopy GREAT SUPER
We love it
Fayriedust from
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
Warm greetings from our beloved Master 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
👍🏻😎💕💕💕
LikeLike
A warden is observing both – very busy he and his assistents are.
LikeLike
..jetzt bin ich ein bissel traurig…..Seehunderschreckende Hunde von Doofmenschen, die heimlich von der anderen Seite in Booten anreisen, sind keine Peanuts….assi! Bin dann mal weg….
LikeLiked by 2 people
Recht hast du! Unbedachte Doofmenschen die nicht denken. Können oder wollen.
LikeLiked by 1 person
@ Dina
super, die Wendung
“unbedachte Doofmenschen”
We like it
Siri, Selma and Klausbernd
LikeLike
We really love Snoopy as the warden – and of course his friend Woodstock too
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLike
Das ist echt Klasse. Danke für das Zeigen. L.G. Wolfgang
LikeLiked by 3 people
Gern geschehen, lieber Wolfgang.
Schönes Wochenende wünschen dir
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
It looks unreal….just as if I had a dream!
Thanks for this unpayable share……
LikeLiked by 3 people
You are very welcome.
Indeed, the landscape of the Point is dreamlike and coming back feels like an awakening.
Wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Das Reich der Seejungfrauen wäre jetzt genau das richtige für mich! Ich geniesse die Bilder mit den immer wieder veränderten Farben.:) Ich wünsche euch Vieren einen weiteren wunderschönen Tag. Liebe Grüsse Martina
LikeLiked by 3 people
Guten Morgen, liebe Martina,
ja, das Reich der Seejungfrauen … Sie sollen in Neptuns grünem Palast unter dem Meer wohnen.
Schön, dass dir Dinas Bilder gefallen – uns auch 🙂
Danke und ein wunderschönes Wochenende dir
Love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
A timely post indeed. After the last week of sultry nights, and daytime sun, today looks like ‘The End Of Days’. The black stormy sky is a marked contrast to the blues of recent weeks. Still almost as dark as night as I type, the water droplets rattling onto the windows. So your happy writing and colourful images are most welcome.
Love from Beetley, Pete and Ollie. X
LikeLiked by 4 people
Hi, dear Pete,
the same weather in Cley as well. We all slept to ten o’clock because it was that dark and now it’s raining cats and dogs. But actually we needed the rain because our water butts were all dry. But what a change!
“water droplets rattling on your window” is a German folksong (“Regentropfen, die an dein Fenster klopfen”). They are seen a dear greetings from our loved one. Oh dear, I just saw that this song was very much liked by the Fascists, what I didn’t know.
We send you lots of love xxxx and thank very much for your poetic commentary
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Nice post! I guess Summer has to leave or it can’t return again.
LikeLiked by 4 people
Of course, you are right. But nevertheless this end of the summer is a little shock.
Wishing you a nice weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a perfect way to farewell summer. The windfarms are a strange sight but apparently they attract seals. And I suppose terns too. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/offshore-wind-farms-create-reef-effect-perfect-for-marine-wildlife-especially-seals-9619371.html Could Siri and Selma hear the wind turbines? Did they sound like mermaids singing? 😉
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Gallivanta,
the windfarms are too far from our coast, a bit more than seven miles. So we cannot hear the turbines working.
We read this too that they attract the seals. But we always had quite a big seal colony at the Point.
We don’t know about the terns. If we look out with our binoculars we don’t see terns around the windfarms.
Thanks for commenting and the link. Enjoy the weekend
Love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Traumhafte Bilder und Worte. Und jetzt hab ich schreckliches Fernweh….
LikeLiked by 2 people
Liebe Erika
Ach du lieber Himmel! Da hilft nur eins, dem nachzukommen …
Hier hat sich übrigens ganz plötzlich der Sommer wirklich verabschiedet. Gut für den Garten, denn endlich regnet es.
Habe herzlichen Dank für deinen freundlichen Kommentar und ein wunderschönes Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ihr müsst euch irren, der Sommer kann unmöglich vorbei sein….
Danke für das Seehundbild, genauso hat er mich angeschaut: Wer kommt denn da vorbei? Und dann einfach ins Wasser steigen und plötzlich bemerken: Da sind noch mehr – und mit ihnen herum paddeln in den Fluten, unglaublich schön!
Wenn man auf diesem Beobachtungsstühlchen sitzt, denkt man sich vielleicht: Wer sich heute an diesen Flecken Natur verirren wird? Vor wem muss ich die Seehunde heute beschützen? Wem muss ich heute freundlich erklären: Ab hier geht es nicht weiter….
Nach dem ersten Tag der Lektüre von Juliana von Norwichs Gedanken, fegte ein ziemlich starker Wind über mich nachts im Traum, ich lag auf dem Bauch und erklärte dem Wind, dass er gerne über mich hinweg fegen darf, ich aber jedenfalls noch hier bleiben werde.
Und ich hoffe schon auf meinen nächsten Spaziergang an dieser menschenverlassenen Küste!
Wunderschöne Fotos Dina, sehr gefällt mir auch der Pilgerstab von KB, haben den die Buchfeen entdeckt? Großartig Mädels!
Herzliche Grüße von Pia
LikeLiked by 1 person
Guten Tag, liebe Pia,
ach du lieber Himmel, war es etwa unsere Schuld mit diesem Blogbeitrag, dass ganz plötzlich der Sommer zu Ende ist? Es regnet und ist herbstlich kühl seit heute Morgen. Gestern hatten wir noch Hochsommer.
Ja, Masterchens Wanderstab haben Siri und Selma entdeckt und ihn für Masterchen abgeschliefen. Sieht toll aus, nicht?! Er ist auch ganz stolz darauf.
Übrigens Julian of Norwich war die erste englische Frau, die ein Buch veröffentlichte. Ihr Thema, dass Gott sowohl männlich als auch weiblich ist, war damals ein heißes Eisen. Es war mutig, das zu schreiben. Heute ist sie Kult, besonders bei feministisch ausgerichteten Theolgen und Theologinnen.
Gaaaanz liebe Grüße von
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ach du heilige Erde, das glaube ich nicht, dass Blogbeiträge den Sommer weg zaubern können…
Einerseits ist es schade, dass nicht mehr Menschen diese Traumstrände in Natur sehen können/wollen, andererseits wären sie dann auch nicht so leer…
Ich finde es übrigens nicht mühsam über die Steine zu gehen, es kommen auch immer wieder Strecken mit Sand, einfach ganz nahe am Wasser.
So, jetzt hoffe ich auf die menschenleere Sauna bei American Fitness, meistens sind die anderen um diese Zeit gerade shoppen….
Liebste Grüße von Pia
LikeLike
Hi liebe Pia,
ich hoffe, du hast ein tollen Saunatag heute.
Ja, ist es nicht toll, wenn man plötzlich und unverhofft ein Seehund begegnet? Chillbrook erlebte das Gleiche wie du, er war vor Glück völlig aus dem Häuschen.:-)
Ein schönes Wochenende dir!
P.S.
Gibt es Neues zum Mietautodesaster?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ja, die Seehunde sind neugierig Tiere und wenn sie nicht gerade an Land verdauend liegen haben sie wenig Angst vor Menschen.
LikeLike
Liebe Dina, habe den Zunker informiert, bestester Anwalt hier in der Gegend…habe eine Rechtsschutzversicherung…an Mr. Jennings und Mr. Forrest schrieb ich in meinem Gelegenheitsenglisch, dass wir alle ja Geld brauchen und ob sie nicht auch in einer besseren Welt leben wollen, in der man so nicht mit Menschen umgehen muss…und dass sie einen Denkfehler machen, denn sie verlieren ja ihre Kunden, wenn diese unzufrieden sind und diese Machenschaften im Netz publik machen und blablabla…mal sehen…
Einmal als das Baumamt mir schrieb, dass ich zwar noch Ballett aber nicht Jazztanz unterrichten dürfe, weil das für meine Nachbarin, die von einem Makler hereingelegt wurde, zu laut sei, habe ich den Stundenplan geändert: Klassisches Ballett, Modernes Ballett, Irisches Ballett, Newstyle Ballett….
Nach 2 Jahren stand der Bauamtsleiter vor meiner Tür und wollte sich für seine damalige Entscheidung entschuldigen, auf einer Suche nach einer WInWin-Lösung hätte er sich geirrt…..ein Wunder!
Ich glaube an Wunder und wünsche euch ein schönes Wochenende!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hi, dear Pia
WONDER HAPPEN
Wir wünschen dir viel Glück, ein feines Wochenende und alles, alles Gute
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Für dich, liebe Pia. Schön, oder?
LikeLike
Oha! Da saß ich unschuldig Maiskolben knabbernd am Mac……DANKESCHÖN!!! Heute muss mein Glückstag sein! In der Sauna war nur diese wunderbare sehr dicke Thailänderin, sie spricht nicht, sondern lacht Wörter: Jetzt muss ich mal einen schönen Aufguss für uns machen, Thai-Suppe, hihi, mit Zitrone..(Menthol, Lemongras…was weiß ich noch…)
Sie sagte: Die anderen sind wohl alle beim Dürkheimer Wurstmarkt…
Also wirklich, man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut!
Das Saunalicht sei kaputt, das erklärte die Thailänderin bevor sie ging und dann saß ich da schwitzend im Dunkeln bei den Lavasteinen.
…
Dankeschön liebe Dina-Hanne!!!!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
@ DINA
Dank für das schöne Video 🙂
LikeLike
Gerne! 🙂
LikeLike
Fabulous breath taking photos and very descriptive words illustrate very well
the beauty and splendor of Blakeney Point. Summer is ending quietly there.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you very much, dear Eddie 🙂
Do you know the Blakeney Point?
It’s great that you can only reach it by walking or boat.
Lots of love and have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
I know it better now since reading your great post. Happy Full Moon weekend
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Fantastic pictures. As the rain drowns the South East of England they are brightening up my morning.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear David,
it started raining too here in the morning and it’s quite dark outside. End of summer – but that suddenly.
Thanks for liking Dina’s pictures.
Wishing you a relaxed weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
I am sure the Summer will have a last fling before the end of September, if not I will just keep looking at these photos. Enjoy your weekend too.
LikeLiked by 1 person
GREAT IDEA
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
wieder wunderschöne Bilder und der Wunsch Norfolk zu bereisen entsteht immer wieder neu. Muss mich aber noch gedulden, bis die Ferien nicht mehr so begrenzt sind und die Zeit frei gewählt werden kann 😉
LikeLiked by 2 people
Guten Tag,
danke für deinen lieben Kommentar.
Wir halten dir fest die Daumen, dass du bald frei reisen kannst, wir du möchtest. Hier ist normalerweise der Herbst sehr schön, aber heute Morgen begann es zu regnen, es war dunkel, als ob der Sommer sich wirklich nachdrücklich verabschieden wollte. Immerhin steckten wir Shorts und T-Shirts in die Waschmaschine.
Ganz liebe Grüße von Nord Norfolk
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
noch 1 Jahr und 10 Monate 😉
Hier ist seit gestern der Herbst auch angekommen mit 15 Grad weniger und statt Sonne Regen… 🙂
ganz liebe Grüsse zurück
Karin
LikeLike
Liebe Karin,
na, das ist doch eine absehbare Zeit, und so kannst du dich jetzt bereits darauf freuen. Du wirst dich wundern, das Jahr und die zehn Monate werden verfliegen wie der Rauch im Winde und huschusch, schon sind sie vorbei. Aber dann nicht vergessen, die Zeit zu entschleunigen!
Alles Gute
👭💃🚶
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Guten Morgen, ihr lieben vier! Tolles Bilde….
Now I have to continue in English! Enjoyed reading this post, and your sea images are wonderful. Summer, alas, is disappearing fast here…..
LikeLiked by 3 people
Hi, dear Sue,
your words in German are perfectly correct! Thank you 🙂 Did you learn German at school?
Summer is disappearing here since this morning as well. It’s raining and much cooler than yesterday, which was an ideal summer’s day.
We say “thank you very much, dear Sue!” and wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
I learnt German at school, a very long time ago, and haven’t kept up the learning…but at least I have been able to find my way around in Germany in the past, especially in the East when few people spoke English….
LikeLiked by 2 people
A lot of Germans speak quite a good Englisch, but. as you write, not in the East. In the East they used to speak another German as in the West. They had their special expressions and different words.
Anyway you could keep up learning German by reading both texts of our blog 😉
On the other hand we are just thinking about writing in English only. It’s Dina’s idea because she has the feeling bilingual texts create a feeling of too much text.
We will see …
Love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Yes, Klausbernd, I do try both texts sometimes, but then when I feel it’s too much, I give up! Mir ist ganz faul…..
LikeLiked by 1 person
Liebe Sue
ja, ja, mir ist auch oft ganz faul
and I love this lazyness (but I had to learn this)
…
Love
Kb
LikeLiked by 1 person
Just a tiny correction…laziness….
LikeLike
Thanks a lot for correcting 🙂
I can tell you, I quite often struggle with English …
LikeLike
Beautifully evocative pictures. Do you find the wind turbines intrusive?
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Philip,
not an easy question to answer.
On one hand they are. We always had the feeling of the endless sea. Now the windfarms mark a kind of limit. We had the illusion that the sea was the last place on our planet which didn’t show any signs of our doings. On the other hand we all use energy, when we are blogging like now we use up energy f.e. This energy has to be produced. And it seems to us that windfarms are aesthetically horrible but a way to produce energy without much pollution. Maybe we see those windfarms like lighthouses one day in the future, who knows. Anyway these static windfarms are quite old fashioned. The Norwegian provider Statkraft is planning a new generation of mobile turbines out in the sea.
But what do you think about the off-shore windfarms, which will surround the UK in the end?
All the best and thanks for commenting
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Fab Four of Cley,
I still have quite a bit of summer to go through, but even after 46 years down here, I still remember the change of seasons and rather looked forward to them. I certainly wish you a mild winter and not too much snow plowing in your future!
Have a terrific weekend!
GP Cox
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hello, dear GP Cox
today in the morning the summer said “bye, bye!” with rain and much lower temperatures. Wow, that was a drastic change, we had an ideal summer’s day yesterday and today a typical autumn’s day. Actually we like the autumn and it was enough summer for us. We needed the rain desperately for our garden.
Thank you so much for all the good wishes 🙂
Wishing you a GREAT weekend as well
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Absolutely stunning photographs – what an amazing day and such an empty beach – apart from the friendly visit by the seal!
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Annika,
we just see that you are living in East Anglia as well and that you are an author like our beloved Master.
Do you know the Blakeney Point?
Thanks for your commentary
The Fab Four of Cley
Und da du Deutsch studiert hast, hätten wir auch deutsch schreiben können, das haben wir ganz vergessen. Auf alle Fälle nochmals herzlichen Dank für’s Kommentieren.
Mach’s gut
Siri und Selma vom Buchfeenland, Dina aus Norwegen und Klausbernd aus Deutschland, aber wir wohnen alle zusammen in Cley next the Sea/Nord Norfolk
LikeLiked by 2 people
Although I’ve been to the Norfolk a few times and around Hunstanton, Cromer, Kings Lynn, Norwich – I haven’t visited Blakeney Point. All a lovely part of East Anglia and as I can see from you photos serene and bereft of people. You’re a wonderful mix of nationalities here in Norfolk! I wonder though where / what Buchfeenland is?
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hei Annika,
snakker du fortsatt svensk? 🙂
The next time you plan a visit to Norfolk, please come and see us. Gives us a shout and I’ll put the kettle on. If the tide is right we can “walk the Point” together, maybe. It’s also a perfect stretch of land to wak alone, to empty the head and collect inspiration and shells. And beautiful stones.
Warm greetings from Bonn, still holding on to summer,
Dina
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hej Dina, ja, jag talar fortfarande svenska! Prata också tyska men är lite lat! Tack för er inbjudan – det skulle blir roligt att träffas vid tillfälle. Tricky to type in Swedish without the correct keyboard…I love collecting shells and stones – had to stop in the end as we had bucket loads in the garage my son and I had collected. Of course, each one was special! Varma Hälsningar. Annika. Sommaren forsvann här!!
LikeLike
Dear Annika,
actually our coast is such a mix from a long time ago. First it were Vikings who settled here, the Danish, much later it were the Dutch who did the irregations and the people from Flanders who traded here. And now we are here. Buchfeenland is in our library on the shelves 3 to 5 – that’s Siri’s and Selma’s little but important country.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Post Scriptum
Maybe you find this interesting
http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/norfolk_coast.htm
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, yes.This is fascinating and great with all the literary connections. We live only two hours from the Norfolk coast and have visited occasionally so it’s interesting to learn all these connections. I am keen to travel up there again on a sunny day and walk those empty beaches!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear Annika
there is not only this website of Literary Norfolk, they published a book as well “Literary Norfolk” where you easily find which author did live or visited which place. Especially our coast was very much frequented by authors. Have a look here
https://kbvollmarblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/literary-norfolk-poppyland/
https://kbvollmarblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/literary-norfolk/
All the best
Kb and the rest of the Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Dear Klausbernd
Thanks for your comments about the windfarms. I am most familiar with the turbines off the coast of Kent and they dont bother me very much, in fact I find the turbines to be rather majestic. I suppose I feel that we need to do something sensible to supply energy if we wish to carry on semi-normally and renewable energy seems a good bet. The recent decision to allow Hinkley Point to go ahead seems mad from many points of view. I was also saddened to hear that a big windfarm off the Dorset coast was rejected on the basis that it would spoill the tourist potential of Bournemouth; I dont know how Bournemouth will be affected by runaway climate change.
Have a good weekend
best wishes
Philip
LikeLiked by 4 people
Dear Philip,
if we want to keep up our lifestyle we need those windfarms and other renewable energy sources. The basic question seems not so much “windfarm yes or no?” but rather “can we afford to keep up our lifestyle?” If we are keeping up our lifestyle (and if England isolates itself more and more from Europe) then the tourist potential of Bornemouth is spoilt anyway.
Have a good weekend as well
Klausbernd
LikeLiked by 1 person
You captured the immense seascape beautifully. Amazing site, can’t imagine being there…
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear Amy
thanks a lot for your kind commentary 🙂
It is an amazing side, indeed!
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
A wonderful post and a fitting tribute to the summer past. Autumn is always so bitter sweet. Beautiful photographs Hanne and wonderful words Klausbernd. I wish Siri and Selma the very best of luck in their summer job application. You all must be missing Hanne very much but the time will soon pass by. Have a wonderful weekend all of you. 🙂 x
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Adrian
We have to admit we love the bitter sweet autumn, that’s our season.
We are missing Hanne very very much although she went just two days ago. And with her the summer is gone as well. How symbolic nature can be.
Siri and Selma are very excited if their application as fairy wardens will pass. We all keep our fingers crossed.
Thanks for your kind words 🙂
Wishing you and Chris a GREAT weekend
3/4 of The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you, dear Adrian,
hope you are having a great time on the other side of the country. 🙂
I miss you all,
Hanne x 🙂
LikeLike
Countdown … we keep our fingers and wings crossed, dear Adrian. Thinking about you and wishing you luck and all the best.
All shall be well.
Dina, Klausbernd, Siri & Selma xo
LikeLike
As much as I am looking forward to cooler (not cold) temperatures I am not quite ready to let go of summer.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Here the season has changed from one day to the other. Yesterday it was sunny and warm, today it’s cool and it’s raining the whole day.
We had enough summer, we think, and we are looking foreward to a nice autumn. Actually autumn is nicest in the big forests like in Germany when the colour of leves are changing. And we like when it’s raining. It’s so cosy then inside 🙂
Have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
I do love the changing color of the leaves and sometimes the rain is nice but I’m a certified summer lover….autumn does come in second though 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Well, after such a sweet summer autumn came quite suddenly – and actually today.
We have to get used to the different light and temperature.
So we wish for you that in the Midwest summer will stay for a while.
Cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
How blissful – an empty beach and in such weather Klausbernd .. much to enjoy strolling and hugging close the late Summer sunshine like that 🙂
Beautiful pictures and words . Happy Weekend to – as you put it – 3/4 of the Fab 4 !
LikeLiked by 4 people
Good afternoon, dear Louise,
it has been a great summer and so we walked the Point several times. It’s always that empty there because for a lot of visitors it’s too much efford walking several hours and some don’t know about the world out there. And, of course, you have to get your timing right otherwise it’s quite a challenge, it means walking on shingle for hours.
Thanks for liking our post.
Lots of love from 3/4 of the Fab Four
But, of course, greetings from our beloved Dina as well.
LikeLike
ah .. and now here’s Dina too 😉 so I can now wish you ALL a Happy Weekend xx
LikeLiked by 3 people
Here I am, Louise,
saying hello from Bonn. It’s so good to be connected with you again. I just had some great news from my computerman in Freiburg; my Mac is almost ready, much faster and bigger and … phew. 🙂
Hope you have wonderful weather in Cornwall and a truly great time with our mutual friends. Happy Birthday to AJ!
We’re very much looking forward to seeing you all in Cley!
Warm greetings from the Rhine Valley,
a big hug to you all,
Dina xo
LikeLike
Hi Dina .. image files are SO huge nowadays laptops / computers do need to be bigger faster and … to keep up . My laptop has become decicedly clunky lol Thank you for your warm greetings Dina , I’m sure there’ll be some fun and celebrations 🙂 x
LikeLiked by 2 people
Have a great time and bring home lots of good memories. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wonderful photos. What a pleasure.
I am especially enjoying the expanse of sky, as where I am currently, the line of sight is interrupted by the mountains hemming us in. On your beautiful beach, it really does seem we could see to the Poles if our eyes were only strong enough, that’s great! 🙂 This is my year without a summer – I had a winter in Wisconsin, and then came to Chile for a second winter, and will be home in New York in time for a third, so your end-of-summer on the shore is extremely appealing, a fantastic dream.
And I kind of like the windmills! And who but an old fossil-fuel lover would tilt at them?
I hope you folks have a wonderful autumn, cheers, Frosty.
LikeLiked by 4 people
Dear Frosty,
thank you very much for your comment with those kind words 🙂 We love it!
We actually like the autumn. But we didn’t expect that summer would change to autumn from one day to the other. We like a climate with four seasons. Once we had to live with our beloved Master in southern Greece. That was horrible: nearly always summer, boring and nearly unbearable. Afterwards we had a great time in the region you are from, Upstate New York, great autunm and real winter, and spring and a nice summer as well.
We wrote a bit about the windturbines above, we are getting used to have our horizon blocked. By the way it’s only if we look east, so we always look west now 😉
Wishing you a wonderful autumn as well.
Cheers and take care
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you. I was teasing a bit about the “windfarms,” we face a lot of tough choices when dealing with energy (nuclear vs fossil vs unsightly windmills, etc.) I recognize that many, or most, people find them aesthetically horrible, and they may also pose a risk to birds. I’m more fond of the smaller ones on rooftops, like the ones all over Denmark, as well as the idea of solar panels molded into roof tiles. There are interesting projects to harvest energy from tides and waves, that would be much less intrusive than giant windmills, which in your photo, remind me a bit of H.G Wells’ aliens in their tripod fighting machines, wading ashore
I always find your articles interesting and “thought-provoking” as they say, and your photography enjoyable.
LikeLiked by 3 people
To harvest energy from tides and waves seem to us the best solution. In Germany and The Netherlands this is done and many families have these solar panels on their roof tops. There are some German towns which produce all the energy they need. No way that this would happen in England as the big energy providers have quite an influence here.
You are right, those enormous windmills reminded me immediately of these tripod fighting machines as well. If we came near these windturbines with our little boat we were absolutely amazed how big they are – they are an eye sore.
Thanks for your kind words about our blog 🙂 We try to keep up being “thought-provoking”.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hach, wie wunderschön und kristallen und luftig-duftig:-)
So ist es ein Vergnügen, den Sommer zu verabschieden. Hier in Freiburg hat er sich heute wohl endgültig verabschiedet. Ein bißchen bin ich froh drum, die heißen Temperaturen machen mir mehr und mehr zu schaffen.
Liebe Grüße an die Fab Four aus Freiburg
Achim
LikeLiked by 2 people
Guten Morgen, lieber Achim,
auch hier verabschiedete sich gestern der Sommer mit Regen und Sturm. Heute ist es jedoch wieder passabel, windstill, 21 Grad und leicht bewölkt, manchmal zeigt sich sogar die Sonne. Aber es ist richtig herbstlich.
Auch wir waren Temperaturen um die 30 Grad C leid. Das ist nichts für nordische Buchfeen, und Dina und Masterchen lieben Temperaturen über 25 Grad C auch nicht. Zum Glück hatten wir bei der Hitze stets eine Seebrise, die es erträglicher machte.
Liebe Grüße in die Stadt der Bächle vom Meer
Danke und ein feines Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
And now comes harvest time. I have enjoyed spending summer with my dear friends, the Fab Four of Cley. Thank you for sharing your joyful exuberance, extraordinary photography and the amazing fairy dust (still feeling the magic). Hugs coming from sunny Vancouver where the leaves are turning golden and the harvest of urban gardens has commenced.
LikeLiked by 4 people
Our dear friend,
we love so much your visits, even if they are virtual only, but they are visits we don’t want to miss. Thanks for your kind words 🙂
After rain and quite a wind yesterday the weather has improved, we have confortable 20 degrees C now, no wind and a bit of sunshine on and off. But autumn is in the air. Our harvest has been mostly tasty tomatoes and carrots and many herbs. Herbs doing very well in our climate. Actually we don’t really grow vegetables. Siri and Selma like much more having nice flowers in our garden and they love herbs as well. The harvest: Now we drown in apples, after the wind yesterday our lawn is covered with windfalls. Then we have Damsons, an old form of plums, as well and some grapes.
We send you lots and lots of love, big HUGs, and finest Fayriedust
Have a GREAT autumn
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
To yours, may I add my farewell to summer, too? My summer was hot and close. No sea air, sadly, though occasionally the remnants of ocean storms. Always interesting. How will you greet autumn? There’s an intentionally dismal modern poem that I think too much about: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot. The only hope in the poem might be toward the end (at the end, actually) when Prufrock believes he might have heard mermaids singing. We all need that hope of magic, don’t we? (The lure of siren songs notwithstanding.)
“The constantly changing colour of the sea attracts our eye, quietens our mind, and deepens our thinking.” Your narrative evokes my love of the ocean. I’ve seen precious little of it, though hardly ever without awe. That you can view the colors and taste the air and perceive the wisdom and humor of seals–well, it’s all marvelous. I’m thankful that you share your experiences and insights with us. Fair winds, summer! Following seas, autumn!
LikeLiked by 3 people
What a truly lovely comment!
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thank you very very much for your lovely commentary we really enjoyed 🙂 🙂 🙂
We all need some magic, magic has to do with our feelings. And for us magic is connected with the sea – and the mermaids. Isn’t it very symbolic that in every tale about mermaids people can love mermaids and be loved by them but they cannot hold mermaids? Isn’t that like magic?
And for everyone who doesn’t know this poem – like we did – here it is. We thought it’s worth being quoted
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question…
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
Thanks for making us aware of this poem.
Wishing you a happy weekend and a happy autumn as well
The Fab Four of Cley
By the way we have to think quite a lot about this poem. We like it but we don’t understand it, well, we have a slight feeling that we might get its sense …
LikeLiked by 2 people
I love this poem, to be honest, it’s my favourite one. But I have to say, that in its end, on the contrary , I cannot discover any hope. Remember, when Prufrock claims, that the mermaids don’t sing for him.
Best regards
Achim
LikeLiked by 4 people
@ Achim
I thought I am not understanding this poem because I cannot find any hope at the end neither.
But I like all these metaphors.
LikeLike
Lovely. Such a beautiful stretch of sand.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear John,
thank you!
We wish you a happy and easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Awesome beach pictures. I really like the empty beach with just a glimpse of small rocks near the edge.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you very much. We love those empty beaches at the Point as well, so much that we have to visit them regularly.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hello you all, I am just in love with your poetic writing, going along with your images.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Cornelia,
thank you very very much for your kind words.
We try hard and playful at the the same time to get texts and pictures fit well together.
Actually we learned a lot from the illuminated manuscript of the Middle Ages. It’s magic how they combined text and pictures.
We wish you a great autumn
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
How very cool, my friends! This poetic goodbye to summer is a class of its own. I can hear the Earth rotate now.
Sarah x
LikeLiked by 3 people
Good morning, dear Sarah
the earth is rotating on and on with a constant magic sound …
Thanks for liking our poetic text 🙂 and those picture going with it!
Lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
My dear friends,
I enjoyed this highly poetic reading very much along with Dina’s photos. May you always keep the outer Point like this. Stockholm has said farewell to summer as well, the days are much shorter and the nights dark again.
“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee.”
Emily Dickinson
Kram, Annalena
LikeLiked by 3 people
Hei Annalena,
tell me, have you ever visited “Fotografiska” in Stockholm?
Hav you closed your stuga for this year now?
Kram, Hanne i Bonn x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Our dear friend,
indeed, it’s much darker here now too. We were amazed that we have to switch on the light before 19h for reading.
Thank you very much for the Emily Dickinson poem. “True Poems flee” like the summer …
Enjoy the weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Beautiful! Words, thoughts, images…they make me nostalgic for so many summers past!
LikeLiked by 4 people
Hi, dear Mary,
thank you so much for liking our text and Dina’s pictures. We thought saying “Bye, bye, summer!” can only be made in a kind of romantic style.
Seeing how many of our visitors here like this text, our Master’s editor asked him if he could use it in new novel (he was asked to write, but too lazy to do it). But maybe now he will start writing again as you, as an author as well, like his text. We Bokkfayries don’t think he should retire and Dina agrees.
Wishing you a GREAT weekend
Siri and Selma and Dina of The Fab Four of Cley
Warm greetings from our dear Master as well 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Funny that you say that, as I almost said in my comment that it belongs in a book, it is such a beautiful read. Reminds me of a favorite book of mine by Henry Beston, “The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod.” Your “Master’s editor” is right…it would be wonderful to see such text in a new novel!
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Mary
thank you very much for giving us the hint. We hadn’t heard of Henry Beston’s book before, but we will get it soon. We don’t know what it is, but we always felt drawn to Cape Cod and Nantucket. Maybe that has to do with “Moby Dick” and this history of whaling we studied at Smeerenburg on Spitzbergen.
We try our very best to make our dear Master write another book – hard work that is.
With lots of finest fayriedust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the clever Bookfayries
LikeLiked by 3 people
oh dear, oh dear, my busy Bookfayries … There you started something!
Anyway I will think about it and I even have an idea for another novel about a man writing a novel on a ship in the Arctic. We will see …
All the best to you and thanks for your kind words
Klausbernd 🙂
LikeLike
Love your walk on the beach at Norfolk– so vast and clear and empty. We live in California with beaches always littered with people. Lovely to find your warm and welcoming blog…
LikeLiked by 3 people
Good afternoon, dear Rhonda,
we fought for it that our beaches stay clear and empty. One important point was fighting against better roads. North Norfolk only has small winding roads, actually rather country lanes, and we want it to stay it like this. Then there are not so much accomodations and services here and these few ones are really expensive. All this and that we are situated at the end of the world keeps the tourists away. So we have our freedom and the great beaches for ourselves. It’s all protected nature and rated as Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Great that you like our blog 🙂 🙂
We wish you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
It certainly looks idyllic. Fun to find your truly beautiful blog.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hallo Ihr Lieben,
ich schließe mich Maren an: traumhafte Fotos! 🙂 Und auch ein ansonsten toller Beitrag. Schade, dass Mary und ich damals nicht mit Klausbernd diese Wanderung unternommen haben. 😦 Also wieder ein Grund mehr, (bald) einmal nach Cley zurückzukommen.
Hier in Port Aransas eignet sich der Strand zwar auch für lange Wanderungen [immerhin ist er über 15 Meilen lang], aber er ist nicht so schön, weil man immer wieder Bebauung hinter den Dünen sieht, und weil auch Autos entlang fahren dürfen. Und es gibt auch keine Seals. Was wir aber unbedingt mal machen müssen, wenn wir wieder da unten sind, ist ein Besuch auf dem nördlich, direkt auf der anderen Seite des “Ship Channel” gelegenen San Jose Island [http://sanjoseislandtexas.org/]. Diese Insel ist vollkommen unbewohnt und nur mit einer kleinen Personenfähre von Port Aransas aus zu erreichen.
Was das Wetter angeht: dass sich hier so langsam auch der Wechsel der Jahreszeiten ankündigt, hatte ich ja schon mal geschrieben. Aber tagsüber ist es immer noch immer noch sommerlich warm, mit gut über 30 Grad. Laut Wetterbericht für diese Jahreszeit über dem langjährigen Durchschnitt. Aber des nachts kühlt es schon merklich ab. Für hiesige Verhältnisse jedenfalls. Auf etwa 20 Grad am frühen Morgen. Und so soll es auch noch für die naechsten 10 Tage sein. Weiter geht meine Wettervorhersage nicht. Insgesamt ein ganz wunderbarer Spätsommer.
Und dann müssen wir mal sehen, was für ein Wetter wir im Oktober auf unserer Tour nach Norden bekommen. Da hoffen wir, weil es ja nach Norden geht, schon auf viel buntes Laub. Aber hoffentlich werden wir auch gutes Wetter haben, denn wir wollen ja viel radeln. Haltet mal die Daumen.
Ein schönes Wochenende wünschen wir Euch – in Cley und in Boon,
Pit & Mary
LikeLiked by 2 people
Guten Abend, lieber Pit,
bevor ich mir gleich meinen Feierabenddrink genehmige – Aperol Spritz – möchte dir gerne antworten. Zuerst don’t worry, unsere beiden Buchfeen werden für euch zaubern, dass ihr bestes Wetter im Oktober haben werdet. Den goldenen Oktober versprechen sie euch. Sie begannen schon gleich nach dem Lesen deines Kommentars mit den Wetterfeen zu konferieren. Ich erinnere mich noch, als ich zuerst nach Kanada Ende September kam, wow, die Färbung der Blätter war umwerfend.
Klar, ihr müßt mal wieder nach Cley kommen und dann wird zum Point gegangen, very civilised mit Picnick und vielen Fotostopps für Dina und dich. – Zum Glück kann man nur zu Fuß oder mit dem Boot zum Point und es gibt – glücklicherweise – keinen Weg den ein Fahrzeug fahren könnte. Es ist ja auch ein Naturschutzgebiet. Naja, ab und an bringt der Warden Lebensmittel mit dem Trecker zur Station, aber sonst ist man stets alleine dort.
Mit der Bebauung am Meer haben wir großes Glück in England, dass nämlich alles Land zwischen der niedrigsten Ebbe und höchsten Flut der Königin gehört. No way damit etwas zu machen und wenn doch wird man nach als Sträfling nach Tasmanien geschickt oder gleich am Strand geteert und gefedert.
Hier hat sich heute wieder das Wetter beruhigt, und es ist richtig nach unserem Geschmack: sonnig, 20 Grad, leichter Wind und trocken. So soll’s auch erst einmal die nächsten Tage bleiben. Dann kann von uns aus der richtige Herbst beginnen. Wir brauchen doch den kühlen Nebel morgens, ein wenig Regen ab und an und die steife Brise, von der ich nie weiß, ob sie mit i oder ie geschrieben wird.
Na, dann mach’s gut, halte dich wacker und take care.
Ganz liebe Grüße vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer an dich und Mary
Klausbernd and the rest of The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
gratitude for bringing
me out to this beautiful beach
to celebrate with you 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear David
you are very welcome! Great that you like our post and our beaches 🙂
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Dina, I love your sweeping images! Very beautiful photos. Thanks for the kind words about my blog. I accidentally deleted your comment, whoops!
LikeLiked by 4 people
Dear Julia
thank you!
Well, “shit happens” as Charly Brown use to say 😉
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Indeed it does. All best back to you 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much, Julia. 🙂
Between the two of us; only last week Klausbernd deleted a comment too, whoops and it was gone … 😦
LikeLike
Dear Dina,
you shouldn’t tell every secret 😉
Love & Kisses xxx
Kb
LikeLiked by 1 person
Love everywhere.
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLike
Beautiful photos! Brings back memories of walking to the point many times years ago and watching the seals (watching us!). It was all pebbles then though until reaching the actual point itself. We hardly ever met anyone either, and that was part of the beauty of it… the quiet and solitude. Lovely post! 🙂
LikeLiked by 3 people
Good morning, dear Cathy,
you are one of the few here who have walked the Point. In the thirty and more years we live here the Point hasn’t changed. If you would walk it today it would be the same experience as many years ago when you walked it. It’s still quiet and empty. Isn’t it great that there exist places in our world which don’t change?! Well actually that’s wrong, the Point is changing constantly but not man made. It’s the sea that changes the sandbanks all the time and there is a danger that in the long run the Pit will be cut off the sea and will silt more and more and will getting marsh land eventually. But we will not see this in our lifetime, we hope.
It’s a matter of timing if you walk on pebbles or on sand. If the timing is right you can even cycle on sand to the outer Point.
Thanks a lot and have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you Klausbernd. The first time we walked to the point must be over 40 years ago – a long walk for little legs – and my memories are patchy! Such a wonderful experience though, and I intend to walk it again one day. Cycling to the point sounds fun too! I do hope it doesn’t change in our lifetimes! Happy walking! 🙂
LikeLiked by 4 people
If you want to walk to the Point again let us know. We look for the best time and may walk together out there, if you like.
We are sure the Point will stay the Point as it is for quite a while 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Klausbernd!
LikeLike
Beautiful open space!
LikeLiked by 3 people
It really is!
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hier noch ein Anfang eines Gedichtes von Wilhelm Busch, den Siri und Selma sooooo lieben:
Ade, ihr Sommertage,
Wie seid ihr so schnell enteilt,
Gar mancherlei Lust und Plage
Habt ihr uns zugeteilt.
Wohl war es ein Entzücken,
Zu wandeln im Sonnenschein,
Nur die verflixten Mücken
Mischten sich immer darein.
Liebe Grüße von
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Und da fanden wir gleich noch ein paar Zeilen von WilhelmBusch
Im Herbst
Der schöne Sommer ging von hinnen,
Der Herbst der reiche, zog ins Land.
Nun weben all die guten Spinnen
So manches feine Festgewand.
Sie weben zu des Tages Feier
Mit kunstgeübtem Hinterbein
Ganz allerliebste Elfenschleier
Als Schmuck für Wiese, Flur und Hain.
Uns hat das natürlich mit dem feinen Feengewand erfreut, nee, nicht die Alliteration sondern, dass einer weiß, was wir lieben.
Feenhauch an alle unsere lieben Leser
Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma
LikeLiked by 2 people
A beautiful post in every way – a wonderful, tranquil atmosphere.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thank you so much, dear Louis
we tried to evoke this atmosphere with our texts and pictures.
Have an easy week to come
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
What a beautiful farewell to summer! Like you, I find the ever changing hues of the sea fascinating. It’s amazing that you could enjoy the long walk and the peace of a late summer day at the sea in the company of wildlife so undisturbed – far from the hustle and bustle of people.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Tiny,
we are very happy to have those endless beaches at our doorstep. By the way, if you have seen the film “Shakespeare in Love” then you have seen the prologation of the Blakeney Point which is Holkham beach. The last scene of this film is filmed there. Siri and Selma sometimes get into a funny mood, they are annoyed when we see other people at the Point. In their understanding it’s their beach – like their garden.
Have an easy week
Love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Just glorious. Thanks for sharing
LikeLiked by 2 people
Good morning, dear Karen,
you are very welcome.
Have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Guten Morgen Buchfeen, kennt ihr schon “Ocean” von Nicki Wells…..so a schön´s Liederl…..das ist meine Empfehlung für euren nächsten Strandrundflug…
Schöne Woche!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hallihallo, liebe Pia,
danke für den Tipp! Aber wenn wir zum Strand gehen, haben wir es lieber gaaaaanz ruhig, muksmäuschen still. Aber wenn wir Masterchen beim Kartoffelschälen helfen, werden wir uns die Musik anhören. Außer bei der Küchenarbeit lieben wir es völlig still hier. Wir lauschen gerne der Musik der Stille …
Feenhauch von
Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma
und einen schönen Tag dir
LikeLike
Guten Morgen, liebe Pia,
ja, da haben bereits unsere geliebten Buchfeen alles geschrieben. Wir haben es hier völlig still, das liegt auch daran, dass wir bei Musik weder lesen noch schreiben können. Und eigentlich ist es auch gar nicht so still, da hören wir die Vögel singen und den Wind in den Bäumen rauschen. Das genügt uns schon. Aber wie geschrieben, bei der Küchenarbeit hören wir bisweilen Musik.
Hab eine wunderschöne Woche
das wünschen Dir
Dina und Klausbernd
LikeLike
Da habt Ihr ja so recht, allein der Vogelgesang vor eurer Haustür genügt als Geräuschkulisse vollkommen! Es ist nie ganz still, hier stört vor allem das Brummen der Busse…
Ebenso – euch allen 4 eine wunderschöne Woche!
Ich sah im Theater ein Ballett zum Geräusch von Meereswellen…ob sie das aushalten würden, die Ballettmuttis und Papas, einen Stille-Tanz ihrer Kinder?
Viel Freude beim Kochen!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Die Stille tanzt in sich, sie ist der Tanz der Leere
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hui, was ist denn das für ein kryptischer Satz von unserer liebklugen Sirifee?
LikeLike
I like this
“der Tanz der Leere”
sounds a bit like Rilke
Greetings and LOVE from Stockholm
Anna Lena xxxx
LikeLiked by 2 people
Siri, du bist wahrhaftig eine poetische Wunderfee! Der Satz ist zauberhaft leicht und ruhig und wird sofort in meiner Sammlung aufgenommen. 🙂
Deine Dina ###
LikeLiked by 1 person
Unsere Buchfeen sind doch KLASSE 🙂
Ich bin stolz auf sie!
Alles Liebe xxx und einen wunderbaren Abend
wünscht
Klausbernd : -)
LikeLike
so clear and nice 🙂
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thank you very much 🙂
Its clarity is the magic of this place, isn’t
Wishing you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Truly lovely post~~
LikeLiked by 4 people
Thanks a lot 🙂
Great that you like our post!
Have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Vitamin Meer – ihr habt ein neues Vitamin entdeckt 🙂 I too love sea vitamins, the air, the breeze, the sense of freedom. Really a beautiful beach and amazing that it was so deserted.
LikeLiked by 4 people
Dear Annette,
Siri and Selma hoping to get the Nobel Prize for finding this new and very important Vitamin. We keep our fingers crossed.
This beach is always empty and therefore we love it so much 🙂
With lots of love and wishing you a great week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 2 people
I’ll help with the Nobel Prize nomination, if needed 🙂
LikeLiked by 3 people
Great! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Please do!
LikeLiked by 1 person
California is that perfect point–mid-80’s, comfy, little humidity. I love this time of year. Soon, though, I too will see summer fading.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear Jacqui
Thanks for your commentary 🙂
We lived in Berkeley for a while and liked the summer there, but we very much missed a real winter with lots of snow. We are nordic Bookfayries and Dina as Norwegian and our beloved Master love climates like in northern Scandinavia with real winters, meaning lots of snow and ice, and clear four seasons. The winter was too mild for us in California.
Actually we are living in the same climatic zone, mediterranean, as you in California now – therefore we need our expeditions in the hight Arctic.
We wish you happy summer’s end
With warm greetings from the little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Thanks for sharing your Vitamin Sea.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Good evening, dear Brenda,
you are very welcome 🙂
Have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
You have a happy, magical week as well!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear Brenda,
“magical week” I like it 🙂
Love and thanks
Klausbernd 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Glorious!!
LikeLiked by 3 people
Good morning, dear Eliza
THANK YOU!
Lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ein feiner Bericht, danke… Ernst
LikeLiked by 2 people
Guten Morgen, lieber Ernst,
vielen Dank, dass dir unsere Post gefällt!
Darf ich dich wieder etwas Gärtnerisches fragen? Ich tu’s einfach:
Wir haben ein kleines Chilli Pepper Bäumchen, das auch viele Chilli Peppers trug und jetzt auch wieder trägt, aber dessen Blätter zuerst sich stellenweise weißlich färbten, dann von den Spitzen an bräunlich und abfielen. Was machen wir da falsch und wie können wir das arme Bäumchen wieder gesunden lassen? Es steht in unserem sehr hellen Wintergarten und ist gut gedüngt. Das Ganze begann, als es so warm hier war und die Temperatur im Wintergarten bei über 40 Grad C lag.
Über einen Rat wären wir hier alle sehr froh, denn wir lieben dieses Bäumchen.
Vielen Dank! Mit lieben Grüßen
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Aus gegebenem Anlass weise ich auf die relativ gute neue CD der Red Hot Chili Peppers hin, die ich zur Zeit viel beim Unterricht verwende. Wenn die Pflanze genug Raga gehört hat und es einfach nicht besser wird: Zeigt hr doch einmal das Video GO ROBOT, witzig….
Ansonsten muss ich sagen, dass ich unglaublich oft sage: Probiere es mit einer Scharfmeditation, stärkt die Willenskraft – wenn es wieder einmal zu viel Gejammere wegen angeblich anstrengender Übungen im Tanzraum gibt….(die Ernte vor der Mühe, das ate Thema…)
Es gibt auch eine sehr schöne Version von “Higher Ground” von Rachelle Jeanty, bei der ich ein sehr schönes Stimm-Couching-Seminar besucht habe.
Außerdem schicke ich euch jetzt die CD mit Sphären-Klängen, die Pflanzen angeblich mögen….(Gestern erhielt ich diesen eindeutigen Impuls in meinem Denkapparat)
Was es nicht alles gibt, bei der Gelegenheit: Wie heißt der berühmte Kreativitätsfosrchungsprofessor nochmal, den du erwähntest und hat der überhaupt schon einmal selbst etwas wirklich Kreatives geschaffen, also ich meine so etwas, was er selbst erst einmal nicht verstanden hat!?
Ansonsten schicke ich meine herzlichen Genesungswünsche zu eurer Chili-Pfanze! Es kann sein, dass sie entweder zu viel oder zu wenig Beachtung bekommt, zu viel oder zu wenig Wasser und Licht, vielleicht braucht sie auch mehr Gesellschaft! Vielleicht ist sie auch überzüchtet und dann ist es nicht euer Schuld….
Endederdurchsageundliebdrücker
LikeLiked by 1 person
Liebe Pia,
Danke für all diese Tipps für unsere arme Pflanze. Die hat genug Licht, Wasser, Dünger und Wärme. Anyway, wir warten erst einmal ab, was der Ernst schreibt, denn er hat richtig Ahnung von Pflanzen, er ist ein “Gründäumling”.
Der Kreativitätspapst mit dem schwierigen Namen heißt Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. Er war allerdings längst nicht der erste, der den Flow entdeckte. Kurt Hahn, der Reformpädagoge, der erst in Salem wirkte und nach seiner Vetreibung durch die Nazis Gordonstoun in Schottland gründete, verfolgte ähnliche Ideen in seiner Erlebnispädagogik.
So, jetzt verschwinden wir in den Garten, um Unkräuter zu zupfen und unsere Fasane zu füttern.
Liebe Grüße xx
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Danke! …Super!…im Hinterkopf immer diese offenen Fragen. Jetzt bin ich beruhigt, mir diesen Namen zu merken war zu schwer!
Schönen Gartentag!
LikeLike
DANKE!
🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLike
Wenn ihr die Fasane zu viel füttert, werden sie noch fett, faul und frech….
Gut, dass ich nach diesen Kreativtypen gefragt habe, es liest sich alles sehr schön in der Theorie, jetzt bin ich kein bißchen schlauer, erkenne aber noch mehr Widersprüchliches und das finde ich gut. Sicher entstehen jede Menge interessante Tänze daraus….
Liebe Grüße und vielen herzlichen Dank!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Die sind schon faul, fett und frech – wir lieben solche Alliterationen!
🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLike
Liebe Pia,
weißt du, was unsere liebkluge Siri gerade sagte?
“Widersprüche sind die Wurzel aller Kreativität.”
Diese klugen Buchfeen …
Einen wunderbaren Tag wünschen dir vom sonnigen Meer
3/4 of The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Siri, Bodo Wartke…wenn der Master wieder kocht, einfach schnell bei youtube mal den Bodo einstellen…Z.B. “Regen” , “Da muss er durch”, “Liebeslied” ..eigentlich egal, man kann da nichts falsch machen, lasst laufen!!!!!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Danke!
Alles Liebe
Siri, Selma und Klausbernd
LikeLike
The sheer size of this place, the intense tranquility, the soul drenching colors, leave me in awe just awe of what Mother Herself creates. To be there in person, standing in this immense place on earth, leaves my mind boggled and yearning to see for myself. Breathtaking images!! Just breathtaking! I really thank you for sharing them with us. I didn’t even know anything like this place existed. Now due to you, I do. ❤
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear Rose,
yes, such breathtaking places still exist on our good old earth. This is behind our doorstep, another breathtaking place for us is the Scoresby Sound in Northeast Greenland, empty and vast as well, and places in the very northwest of Scotland.
Thanks for commenting and liking our post.
Have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
You are SO fortunate to be living where you are. From where I see it, you live in Paradise!! ❤
LikeLike
Well, we are very happy being able to live here.
It’s an AONB, which means Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (an EU rating of European landscapes) and our village is situated in the centre of a big nature reserve of the Wildlife Trust.
With lots of love from the sunny sea
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Amazing photography and what a superb place to dream.
LikeLiked by 2 people
It really is!
Wishing you a great rest of the week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Oh so very lovely, both words and pictures! That huge expanse of a beach with hardly a soul on it. Wow, just wow!
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Lisa
Thank you very much for your kind words 🙂
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Summer was very sweet, and I agree it deserves to be sent out with all its glory. The empty, yet so beautiful beaches are the sad sign that everyone has moved back into work and study, leaving those beaches to bask in the peace & quiet of those late summer days. You are all quite lucky to get such a steady dose of vitamin sea ~ good for the spirit and soul. Cheers to a great send-off ~
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good morning, dear Dalo.
this beach at the Blakeney Point which Dina photographed is always that empty. When we walk to the seals at the end of the point we usually don’t see any other folks.
You are so right, we need this vitamin sea regularly for our bodies, minds, and souls. Therefore we quite often walk out to the point in every season.
But as you live partly in the Emerald City you have the sea at your doorstep as well – and in Hong Kong you are surrounded by the sea.
We wish you a very happy rest of the week from our little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
I’m very much like you all, I need to see and feel the ocean and its vitamin sea 🙂 For me, the water soothes the mind ~ enjoy the first day of fall.
LikeLike
Dear Dalo,
thanks, we already did. We had a fine day and it was quite warm and sunny still 🙂
Wishing you a GREAT autumn
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
A beautiful and poetic goodbye to the summer. It’s been a fantastic summer and looks like it’s continuing into the autumn—of course depending on where you are. I love the open landscape you have captured in these photos. Beautiful images.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Hi, dear Otto,
what a great summer, it’s continuing into autumn here as well. It’s warm and sunny and we are thinking of walking to the Point again. We regularly need this dose of empty and open landscape. It cleanses our mind and spirit.
Thanks for liking Dina’s pictures and your kind commentary.
Cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
The photographs are wonderful. The summer is nearly over, of course, but then every season has it’s attractions, so I’m not too disappointed.
LikeLiked by 1 person
We are neither because we love the autumn – but we will write about this in our next post.
Thanks and Cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a fantastic beach and beautiful images. We moved to West Sussex last Autumn and are exploring the South Coast. being close to the coast is a new experience as we previously lived in South Northants which is reckoned to be as far from the sea as possible in the UK. We have some great sandy beaches – Selsey Bill for example – but not as vast as Blakeney Point. And the skies are always a special addition.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thanks a lot for your commentary 🙂
We think you have fine beaches on South Coast as well. But Blakeney Point is very special because it’s quite a long backwater coast on which a large seal colony lives all the year round. And what’s very important you cannot reach the Point with any kind of transportation except the boat or you have to walk out there, what’s really great.
Have an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Such an idyllic looking beach! Your photos are so beautiful, and your words just transported me there in your beautiful late summer/September weather. I would love to see the seals, the terns, and of course the mermaids. 🙂
LikeLiked by 3 people
Good morning 🙂
today would be the ideal day to walk out to the point for meetings seals and mermaids. They are sunbathing there together on a sandbank and wait for the summer to go. They think like we do that was enough summer! Always these blue skys and sunshine is boring, isn’t it? But concerning the weater forecast there is no end to be expected of this sunny and warm weather. We are now hoping for a real winter with lots and lots of snow 🙂 But inbetween we’ll have autumn, we are looking foreward to as well.
With lots of love and thanks for commenting
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hasn’t it been the most extraordinary summer? It’s made me so happy, and I love your photos of endless expanses (and a guest appearance from the Master 🙂 🙂 ) Sorry for coming so late to this post.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Jo
indeed, this summer was GREAT! We loved it and have been more outside than in our house. We more or less moved in the garden 🙂
Oh dear, yes, Dina photographed our dear Master although he was protesting against it. But he had no chance.
Coming late it’s not a problem, we love that you come! 🙂
With lots of love from the little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great post with a romantic goodbye to Summer.What a fantastic beach and wonderful photo’s.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Yes, our beach is really great! It’s a pitty that we don’t walk more often to the Blakeney Point.
Actually we still have summer here: sunny and warm. But we suppose it will change during the coming week.
Thanks and cheers, have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Beautiful shots!!!
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thank you very much!
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Stunning pictures. Witty commentary. Excellent. Best start following
LikeLiked by 3 people
Dear Dorris 😉
Thanks a lot for liking our post 🙂
All the best and see you soon here again
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Love the idea of vitamin Sea – I must steal that one!!! Here we don’t miss summer so much because fall is perfect in our humid climate, Like you we have warmth through mid-November and better still we have our beaches to ourselves (much as in your beautiful landscape photographs!) Happy fall to you all, and good luck to your little friends on their job applications 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Good evening, dear Tina,
GREAT reading from you again 🙂
We have to admit we have enough of summer, of sun, warmth, and a boring blue sky. Therefore we are looking forward to autumn as well. Now we would like rain, fog and all this weather that makes it so cosy sitting inside in front of the fire reading and talking. We had a very long summer this year and it’s still summery. Well, we enjoyed this warm and sunny summer but now it’s time for autumn – therefore “bye bye summer!”
We wish you a happy autumn and Siri and Selma say “thank you very much!” for your good wishes 🙂 🙂 They send you finest fayriedust.
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Great images! 🙂 What a beautiful coastline. Do you live there?
LikeLiked by 2 people
Good morning, dear Patty,
yes, we live here. The Blakeney Point is just behind our doorstep 🙂
Thanks for commenting and have a great week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Spiritual Challenges.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thank you very much for reblogging! 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Such beautiful shots.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Good morning, my dear Lady,
thank you very much for commenting 🙂 Dina loves it that you like her shots!
We wish you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Zum Glück kann ich immer Kurzurlaub machen und diese Bilder anschauen…..go(o)db(u)ey sum(m)er….
Es gibt diese Zeiten, in denen man sich fragt: Was ist alles im Preis enthalten beim Tanzunterricht, was muss man noch alles tun, dass sie (endlich) zufrieden sind?
Genauso bei dieser Englandreise: Dorthin zu reisen, wo nichts ist, an diesen menschenverlassen Strand und dort alles zu finden um zufrieden zu sein, für manche wäre das todsterbenslangweilig, nicht los.was soll man da?!
Ich finde diese Überlegung gerade sehr hilfreich: Was will meine Seele (noch) erleben und was mein Ego…
Dabei trällere ich: Pat Ben atar “True love” im Video sind auch kurz Siri und Selma schlafend in der Hängematte zu sehen…
Hier scheint noch die Sonne, wir finden das gut
LikeLiked by 1 person
Guten Tag, liebe Pia,
gerade kommen Sirilein, Selmachen und ich vom Einkaufen zurück. Zum Glück benötigen wir nicht viel, wir haben das Meiste, was wir benötigen. Natur in Überfülle, Ruhe und nette Nachbarn, was will man mehr? Klar, da haben wir etwas Bier für Masterchen gekauft und leckeren Aufschnitt für uns Buchfeen, zwei Steaks und etwas Fisch, aber das war’s schon. Jetzt, wenn wir drei alleine hier sind, gehen wir nur alle 14 Tage einkaufen, das genügt völlig. Kennst du auch das Gefühl, man kommt in den Laden und meint, das alles brauche ich nicht, bloß raus?
Was will unsere Seele noch erleben will, was unser Ego. Klar doch, unser Ego bekäme am liebsten den Nobelpreis für Literatur, unsere Seele ist völlig damit zufrieden, wenn Dina, Siri & Selma und Masterchen hier gemütlich und fröhlich zusammen leben und es sich nett machen. Was brauch’s noch mehr? Klar doch, ein paar gute Bücher, aber davon haben wir ja wirklich genug.
So, das waren unsere Worte zum Montag.
Habe eine rundum feine Woche
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Diese Steaks, diesen Fisch und dieses Bier- enjoy! Das Meiste baucht man echt nicht…nur mal dies und das…
…
Wissen das Siri und Selma, dass du den Nobelpreis willst? Musst du ihnen mal saaaaaaegen!!!!!!!!!
Mittwoch – o schreck…..
LikeLiked by 1 person
Nee, das traue ich mich nicht, ihnen zu sagen, es ist ja voll peinlich. Aber ich befürchte, jetzt haben sie es hier gelesen – oh dear.
Von der spätsommerlichen Küste die liebsten Grüße
Klausbernd
der Rest der Fab Four lässt auch lieb grüßen
LikeLike
Klar doch haben wir das gelesen! Wir werden da mal Feenzauber praktizieren.
Liebe Buchfeengrüße von
Siri und Selma
LikeLiked by 1 person
An unspoiled beach is a beautiful (and for us very rare) thing. Thanks for sharing. You have me yearning for the seashore.
LikeLiked by 4 people
Dear Bill,
you are very welcome! 🙂
We love our empty beaches and it’s a pity that we don’t walk more often to the Point.
Have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Dina's Desktop and commented:
Visiting my namesake across the ocean and beyond the sea…
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dina says THANK YOU to Dina.
We feel honoured
The Fab Four of Cley
P.S.
Do you know the great novel “Dina” (maybe in the States under the titel “My Name is Dina”) by Herbjørg Wassmo? It is very well filmed as well:
https://toffeefee.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/i-am-dina-der-film-2/
We blogged several times about the book and the film.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I do so enjoy your posts and yes, I did see that movie. It was quite some years ago that I watched, but remember that it was much enjoyed and very well made. Keep up the sharing. You do so very well with the blog. Thank you!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Beautiful! Love the idea of hearing the earth turn—we believe it. Can you also hear that wind farm? We send you big hugs and good wishes, Fab Four!!! Jean & Alex
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear Jean & Alex
we love it “to hear the wind farm” GREAT! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 Fortunately we don’t hear the wind farm, it’s too far away.
Thanks for liking our post!
Very big HUGs and good wishes to you as well
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
I’d forgotten that Norfolk looked so good….great pics…
LikeLiked by 2 people
Yes, Norfolk and especially the North Norfolk coast is GREAT and fortunately it’s not that touristy here.
Thanks for commenting and all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Hi! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
LikeLike
This is SO beautiful. Vast and free and natiral, unspoilt.
Am wondering where these photos were taken? You are very lucky to live near to this much beauty!
Peta
LikeLiked by 1 person
Dear Peta
Thanks a lot for your comment.
The pictures are taken at the Blakeney Point, North Norfolk – that just behind our house.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
I invite you to swing by my blog….
Look forward to reading your comments 🙂
Peta
LikeLike
You find our blog that important that you use us for a little bit of advertisment 😉 We feel honoured.
Good luck
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Bonjour ou bonsoir
Ce jour au soir deux étoiles
Vont tomber du ciel
Une sera remplit de sagesse
L’autre sera chargé de tendresse
Au loin dans le ciel une brille , celle de notre pacte d’amitié
Je te souhaite une merveilleuse journée ou soirée
Tiens au passage je te chante une mélodie , celle de mon cœur
Bisous , Bernard
LikeLiked by 1 person
WOW!
Thank you very very much.
Sorry for not answering before but we didn’t see the reply-button here.
We are very happy about this bunch flowers 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
With lots of love and have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Exquisite shots! I LOVE to walk the beach. It is sometimes difficult on my body but it’s so good for the soul. 🙂 Your photos are most inviting and thanks for following me!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great that you like our pictures and our blog. Thanks a lot.
All the best to you and have a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Goodbye summer: that phrase sounds very sad. When the cold wind begins to return.
I remember a special summer when it began the fall, also and they ended my vacation return to work. Along with the summer went days of relaxation and peacefulness, days to spend day and night without looking at the clock. My consolation was to think: well, someone in the world should work, man!.
Nice post and photos also.
Greeting.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good afternoon, dear Walter,
We like your sentence “someone in the world should work”.
When Dina and our dear Master were working they often took their holidays in winter. So autumn was the time of planning the holiday, a great time.
Great, that you like our post. Thanks!
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Beautiful photos!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you very much 🙂
Have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Love seeing these beach pictures and comparing them in my mind to what we experience in South Carolina where we vacation. Many similarities but also many differences. However it’s all good and we’ve never met a beach we didn’t like!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you very much!
Well, it seems to be that people love beaches.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
LikeLiked by 1 person
Pingback: Seal Warden at Blakeney Point | The World according to Dina
Stunning photographs that really capture the mood of those wide open beaches
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good morning, dear Robbin,
thanks for commenting and liking Dina’s photography 🙂 🙂
We love this vastness of the wide open spaces, we couldn’t live without.
Wishing you a happy rest of the week
The Fab Four of Cley
💃🚶♂️👭
LikeLike