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| St Benet's Abbey |
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| Lots of beautiful homes at Horning and Wroxham | |
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Thursday 19th May was our 6th Day. We had a cruise up towards Wroxham. We were looking for provisions and water. There were numerous lovely houses along the river at Horning and and Wroxham but they both had no available places to moor. We also passed some huge boats that were taking people on trips, passing these needed some caution. On the way back we visited Salhouse Broad where you have to pay to moor (end on mooring). The charge was well worth it though as it included water and it was about a twenty minute walk from the staithe to a nice little shop/post office where we were able to get the supplies we wanted. We sat at Salhouse for a short while and watched the trip boats moving slowly round the broad one after another.Further back towards our moorings of the previous two nights we stopped at St Benet's Abbey. The staithe here was rather low and getting off the boat proved to be a little tricky. However the ruin was interesting with a wind pump having been built into the gatehouse of the old abbey. A couple of plaques gave some details of what used to be on the site but further investigation on the internet might be interesting. Our final journey of the day took us up the Thurne to see if mooring at Ludham was a possibility but the inlet to the village was narrow and many of the moorings had been closed, those left were full so we returned to our usual haunt of Thurne mouth.
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| Almost everywhere we looked there was a heron |
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One of the large pleasure boats near Wroxham
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