Walking in Winchelsea

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside... (come on, sing along)

These photos were all taken on a walk along Winchelsea seafront. I'm a sucker for information boards - I love to find out about the area and the wildflowers.



These are yellow horned poppies - you can see why!



Teasels - love the sculptural shape. I remember making hedgehogs out of them as a child.



A lagoon just off the beach was filled not with the seabirds we were expecting but by goats.



Another surprise. We decided this must be a testing area for roofing paint or something like that. Odd!



sea peas



You can just see the wind farm in the distance. I'm a fan (no pun intended!) I think they're quite beautiful.



Our gravel garden is starting to fill with wild flowers now, this beach look is what we're aiming for.



and finally... ;-)

Windfarms - for or against?

We went for a walk at Rye harbour yesterday, and of course passed new local landmark - the wind farm. I actually find them quite attractive, and this was the first time I'd seen them since they became operational. I'd expected them all to be turning together (a bit like synchronised swimming!) but in fact they each move independently, as if to a different drum.

There was a huge outcry in the local paper when the windfarm was first suggested, and this continued throughout the construction. Obviously the traffic must have been a nightmare: these things are HUGE. Yet to claim they are a blot on the landscape seems wrong, in my opinion. this is not an unspoilt "natural" landscape by any means. Others feared for the birds (this is a nature reserve with many water birds) but surely they are big enough for even the daftest of birds to notice and avoid?
What do you think?