St. Anthony's Bank.

We had a brief spell of nice weather this week so a couple of days ago we had a walk along St. Anthony's Bank along the beach front.  It runs from the south end of Cleethorpes to the Humberston Fitties along a hard surfaced footpath.

We started as usual from the car park at the rear of Thorpe Park Caravan site, at the Humberston end.  I took plenty of photo's and despite "pruning" them down a little I still had a lot.  So I've decided to post the walk over two posts.

Leaving the car park to get to the beach just ahead.  The council are having to do some repairs to the sea defences following some heavy, high tides.

When I got to the path there was a group of walkers.  We usually turn right here for the Humberston Fitties but on this day we turned left, back towards Cleethorpes.

I let them get going as I don't like walking in groups.

These caravans are at Thorpe Park and have super views out across the beach.
Cleethorpes Pier can be seen in the far distance.  A slim white building on the right of the horizon.

The tide was out, which is how I prefer it, as it lets you see all the creeks and sandbanks.

Recent heavy tides brought this timber walkway up onto the beach, it hasn't floated off
on any following tides yet.  There's a lot of debris along the tide line. 

This saltwater lagoon gets topped up when we have any high tides.  We get Oyster catches
and other seabirds here including a resident Little Egret.  A bird watcher told me he'd been
observing a Glossy Ibis here, but I've never seen it.

A bit further along, approaching where the Buck Beck come through from Cleethorpes
and out to the Humber Estuary.

Not many people out on the beach.

The Buck Beck, as it flows under the embankment out out to sea.

Haile Sand WW1 Fort can be seen out in the Estuary, on the horizon.

This is the railway station at the southern end of the Cleethorpes Light Railway, which
extended from the middle of Cleethorpes seafront to here at Humberston.  Following a problem
with a road crossing this part of the line was closed and has now fallen into disrepair.

The passing loop at the station leading to the now derelict signal box.

A couple continuing along the footpath.

Vandals have smashed all the windows and this signal box is now a luxury Pigeon Loft!

We turned of here to take a little detour from the Embankment footpath. this is the rear
of the sluice gate that controls the flow of Buck Beck out to the Humber Estuary.

That's about half of my photo's from our walk so I'll show the rest, from our return walk, in part two of this posting.

Olympus EM10 iv plus 14-42 EZ lens.