The last section of the Norfolk coastal path - Great Yarmouth to Hopton on sea and then to Lowestoft

[00:00:00]Morning everybody. [music] So, we're just starting our hike now. We're going to be doing this up at Coastal Path, but we're doing it with a slight little difference.

[00:00:12]Uh, not too long ago, we completed the Norfolk Coastal Path, but I lost the footage for the last part of the walk.

[00:00:21]So, we're actually just parked up in Loistooft, but we're going to uh make our way to Great Yarmouth by bus and we're going to redo the last little section of the Norfolk coastal path, which will take us from Great Yarmouth to Hopton. [snorts] We're then going to walk to Lowistooft.

[00:00:44]Then we're going to start the Suffuk Coastal Path and we're going to do the first two stages of that.

[00:00:52]So, come and join us over the next couple of days as we'll make our way along the coastline.

[00:01:10]So, we're just starting the walk now.

[00:01:13]We're just got off the bus from Lowistoft to Great Yarmouth. We're starting our walk. We're just heading through Yamoth now. And we got to get over the bridge.

[00:01:25]So, we're the other side of the river.

[00:01:27]Yeah. [snorts] And uh and then we'll crack on with the walk.

[00:01:49]Just going over the river. Yeah. Now the town's starting to wake up. It's about quart 8 in the morning. Something like that.

[00:02:02]All these people going off to off to work.

[00:02:07]But guess what? We're not going off to work. We're going on a hike.

[00:02:12]Making our way to great y to lower.

[00:02:18]By the time we finish this walk on this occasion, we'll end up in South Wald which incorporates this incorporates the end of the Norfolk coastal path at Hopton and it's the first two stages of the Suffuk coastal path. The plan is then to continue this the Suffuk coaster path down to Felix on another occasion, but the idea is that we're going to complete the whole of East Anglian coastline and we're well on our way to doing that.

[00:03:17]I I play baseball.

[00:04:05]still remain.

[00:04:16][laughter] Good.

[00:04:31]So, we're just coming to the end of the harbor, I think.

[00:04:36]So, we somehow got to just uh I don't know if we get across it >> or whether we just go to the edge of it, which takes us back down onto the coastline.

[00:04:52]But it's been it's been nearly a threemile walk just walking through Great Yarmouth to get to where we are now.

[00:05:13]So, we're finally back onto the Norfolk Coastal Path.

[00:05:18]just finish off this these last uh few miles of the Norfolk Coastal Path and then make a start on the Suffuk Coastal Path.

[00:05:59]So, it looks like we finally got back down to the actual seafront.

[00:06:32]So, we're currently just passing Golston.

[00:06:36]Beautiful beaches here.

[00:06:40]Lovely looking sand.

[00:07:06]So, we're just coming to the end of this path now. So, it looks like we're going to have to get down onto the beach now and walk on some sand.

[00:07:16]But, I guess if we go nearer to the water, it's going to be a lot easier to walk on.

[00:07:22]Bearing in mind though, my shoes are not waterproof.

[00:07:47]Four guys.

[00:08:34]This is not good walking on this sand.

[00:08:41]We were averaging 3.2 2 miles an hour.

[00:08:45]So, I think that's uh that's declining rapidly having to walk on this.

[00:09:16]Heat.

[00:09:35]Heat.

[00:10:03]I am gone.

[00:10:09]Tell you what, this little bit of beach here would be a brilliant place to wild camp.

[00:10:16]Mind you, A, there's a risk of falling rocks from these cliffs.

[00:10:23]B, there's a risk of getting absolutely stoked when the tide comes in.

[00:10:31]So, we're just having a look at the beach now. I think we're going to be all right.

[00:10:39]The tide is coming in.

[00:10:44]>> It's getting softer and softer and the sea is coming in now. I don't know how far it comes in.

[00:10:58]>> Are we going to get wet feet?

[00:11:07]I don't want the sea salt in my shoes.

[00:11:12]>> Look how deep. Look how deep. Look.

[00:11:30]Heat.

[00:11:40]Heat.

[00:12:12]Come on. We're getting Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Going to get wet. Going to get wet. Oh god, I'm wet.

[00:12:50]Oh [ __ ] Oh no.

[00:13:01]Oh my god.

[00:13:03]We must be bloody mad for all I can say.

[00:13:20]Come on. Bring it off.

[00:13:43]We got to make our way to these rocks somehow that you can see in the distance. There is some steps the other side of them.

[00:13:52]So, the water comes right up to the rocks.

[00:13:56]So, we don't quite know what we're going to do here.

[00:14:06]So, We got these rocks now. Do not climb on the rocks, it says.

[00:14:14]But we may be able to. There's a little sandy path just above it.

[00:14:20]We may be all right. I'll let James go first to see if he sinks in the sand.

[00:14:35]Yep.

[00:14:37]We seem to be okay at the moment.

[00:14:43]I say at the moment, >> but I think I'm going to have to uh put the camera away so I can concentrate on the climb. We've only got to get up there.

[00:14:55]Yeah. So, it looks like we're we've got through. We've got through now.

[00:15:04]So, we're not the first ones that have ever got stuck in that area. I don't think so.

[00:15:22]>> Right. Let's get up these steps, get onto the top of the cliff, and then we'll have a look at what we should have done.

[00:15:31]>> This was it.

[00:15:32]This is the path.

[00:15:38]>> Alternative route.

[00:15:39]>> Yeah, this is the alternative route. Yeah.

[00:15:45]>> Oh, no. I enjoyed that actually.

[00:15:47]>> I enjoyed I enjoyed that. It was an adventure.

[00:15:55]Let's be honest. That's what we're here for.

[00:15:59]Oh, this nice ser.

[00:16:07]>> So recognize this area as being Hopton.

[00:16:16]So when we came here the last time, the rocks down here, you could see them clearly and there was spring of spananiels running around in the rocks.

[00:16:30]They wouldn't be today.

[00:16:33]They could be swimming around in the rocks, but they certainly won't be running around in them.

[00:16:39]But it looks really busy here actually.

[00:16:42]Popton. It was very quiet when we came last time.

[00:16:51]>> Yeah. Probably just around that clip and we're there.

[00:16:53]>> Yeah. So, when we did this walk the last time, the end post came on us all of a sudden.

[00:17:06]But we know exactly where it is now.

[00:17:14]So there'll be no surprises today.

[00:17:28]>> Yeah. the last time we came around this corner and we were really surprised that the North Coastal Pass ended as suddenly as it did, but uh there was no fanfare.

[00:17:40]No band playing. But yeah, so that's the end of the North Coastal Path and now we're going to carry on walking, carry on to lower.

[00:17:53]But before we do that, we need to stop, have something to eat, and make ourselves a cuper.

[00:18:01]And where better to do it than on a golf course or a putting course overlooking the sea on one of these benches.

[00:18:15]Now, the question is, are we going to be able to light a stove up there?

[00:18:24]I don't think we'll bother. I think we'll just uh We did have a coffee at Yarmouth to be honest.

[00:19:07]Well, that was a welcome break.

[00:19:10]Something to eat and a drink.

[00:19:14]And now we're cracking on.

[00:19:16]Got about another four miles to go to get to lower stuff [snorts] and then we can chill a bit for the day.

[00:19:57]Oh no.

[00:19:59]Oh no. Here we go.

[00:20:07]Are you sure about this?

[00:20:20]>> Oh, big one's coming.

[00:20:23]Woo.

[00:20:38]She All right. So, we managed to get up on the bank, >> and I think we're going to make our way back down and we can walk on the seaw wall. By the looks of it, it looks like somebody has made a sort of a pedestrian path, so to speak.

[00:21:29]>> [laughter] >> down there.

[00:21:35]>> Wow.

[00:21:38]Wowers.

[00:21:47]There's a big wave coming in.

[00:22:04]So between Popton, Cton and Lower Stuffed, it looks like we're pretty much stuffed.

[00:22:16]It looks like we're turning back.

[00:22:22]So, do you fancy taking your shoes and socks off, James, and walking along this bit path here?

[00:22:29]>> Is that a yes or a no?

[00:22:34]>> Look at this big one coming. Here we go.

[00:22:39]Tell you what, it's nearly getting up here, is it?

[00:22:41]>> Yeah.

[00:22:49]Huh?

[00:23:10]Wow.

[00:23:27]So, after that eventful walk through the water, we've gone through the golf course. Just one second.

[00:23:37]James is just ringing his socks out.

[00:23:42]He got a bit wet as well.

[00:23:47]Yeah. So, after that eventful walk through the water, the water on on the seafront, we decided to come back up at the top of the cliff, cut through the golf course.

[00:24:00]Guess what? We found the acorn signs that were hidden and overgrown in the bushes. But we walked on a little bit further and we found the King Charles III path and the England coast path. So we know we're on the right track.

[00:24:22]But it's interesting that the North Coastal Path ends here. The Suffford Coastal Path starts in Lower Stuff which is 4 miles away.

[00:24:33]But the King Charles III path that joins everything together.

[00:24:40]And I know that is a path that they are still working on. And guess what? So are we. We want to work our way around.

[00:24:49]Anyway, let's get cracking and get this walk done.

[00:24:54]Looks like we've got to do a left turn.

[00:24:58]In fact, this bloke on the bike is just going in there and there's some people coming out. So that's where we got to go.

[00:25:13][snorts] Yeah.

[00:25:25]>> A bit.

[00:26:17]open ground. Don't know what that don't know what that geez is doing down there in the front, but I think he's trying to fly or something.

[00:26:40]All right. Looks like we got a bit of road walking now. Not looking forward to this. No pavements.

[00:27:28]>> Nice little bit of a woodland walk.

[00:27:31]That's what >> So, this path that we're on took us through a residential static caravan park, which was all right, but the acorns are not very well.

[00:27:52]They don't show up very well. You have to really look for them. And we did miss one by a gate cuz when the gate was closed, the gate was over the top of the acorn.

[00:28:04]So, you didn't actually know that that was the path. And it wasn't until I looked at the hiker app that uh we realized that we'd missed it.

[00:28:16]But never mind. We're on a path which is really nice looking path. Runs adjacent to the road.

[00:28:24]So, this is this is another gate.

[00:28:28]Luckily, we know we're on the path, but we just seen a sign that says there's lizards and adders in here.

[00:28:57]The adders will be well in the bracken over there.

[00:29:02]They wouldn't go anywhere near this path, I'm sure.

[00:29:19]So, we've decided to just come off of the actual path itself so that we can get down onto the beach.

[00:29:34]And it's quite steep.

[00:29:49]Come down to the come down to the sandunes now.

[00:30:08]We can just see Guliviver in the distance.

[00:30:15]Goliver's that wind turbine. You probably can't see it on this camera.

[00:30:23]There's an energy company based just behind Nest Point.

[00:30:29]It's an industrial industrial estate nest point being the most easterly point of Britain.

[00:30:40]There's a big compass.

[00:30:42]It's not actually called a compass. I can't remember what it is called, but it it has got a proper name.

[00:30:56]The area is known as Nest Point.

[00:31:02]Get to Nest Point.

[00:31:06]We got to get to North Deans.

[00:31:10]North Deans is where we are actually planning to pitch up for the night tonight.

[00:31:20]So, as you know, I parked my van in Lowestoft earlier on today, this morning.

[00:31:29]Then we caught the bus to Great Yarmouth, and we've walked from Great Yarmouth to Lowistooft during the day today.

[00:31:37]So, that's the reason that we haven't got great big backpacks on our back because we left them in the van and we'll go and pick them up before we go and set up camp for the night.

[00:31:54]So, we can see North Deans in the distance.

[00:31:59]So, our journey for the day is nearly over.

[00:32:29]We're at North Dean's car park now.

[00:32:34]It's actually a free car park, which is good.

[00:32:44]>> We're just walking down past North Dean now.

[00:32:51]Giver in the distance.

[00:33:08]See, he's right in.

[00:33:15]Here we go. Here we go.

[00:33:52]We only came here for the show.

[00:34:02]That's a rough old sea.

[00:34:21]So, we decided we're not going to go past this red line.

[00:34:26]Got to stay.

[00:34:43]Come on. Do your best. Come on. Come on.

[00:34:47]Give it to me. Come on.

[00:34:51]Yeah. [groaning] That's yellow.

[00:35:15]Yeah.

[00:35:18]See Oh, it's the sunshine coming out again.

[00:35:33]>> Here we go.

[00:35:38]>> Walk on that bed.

[00:35:42]Who's coming in yet?

[00:35:45]All right, stand here. Just stand here.

[00:35:49]Here it comes. This one. Here it comes. Here it comes. Come on.

[00:36:04]I think there.

[00:36:07]So, just stop for five minutes and then neck oil.

[00:36:14]And the good thing about that is my pack is now 330 mil lighter. Right. So, we're just going to get something to eat, chill out a little bit, and then we're going to be looking for a suitable place to pitch up for the night.

[00:36:34]I'm sure we're going to find somewhere.

[00:36:37]We're just having a look around now to see if we can find somewhere to pitch up for the night.

[00:36:51]There is some woods up here.

[00:36:57]There's some open ground as well.

[00:37:05]But well, we'll see what we can find.

[00:37:10]So, the tent's up. We found this pitch just in the middle of a load of trees and bushes and things. So, we are quite sheltered from the wind.

[00:37:28]Yeah, there it is.

[00:37:31]I put a bit of light on the subject now.

[00:37:34]If you can uh ignore my camera shadow.

[00:37:41]Yeah, it's the L Shan 2.

[00:37:44]I've got some extra guidelines on the sides. As you can see, when the lights on, they glow in the dark.

[00:37:55]James, he's set up over here in the bushes.

[00:38:03]He's got to be very careful when he gets out of those bushes, though.

[00:38:08]>> Again, excuse the shadow of the camera.

[00:38:12]But yeah, James is pitched right in the middle of some gor bushes, but I'm sure he'll be fine.

[00:38:25]That's it for day one.

[00:38:28]I wish you all good night.

[00:38:32]I can hear the sea. The sea is about probably 100 yards to the left of me, but we're quite sheltered from the wind, so it's all good.

[00:38:44]But yeah, I'm going to go to sleep now.

[00:38:47]I'll catch [music] you all in the morning. Good night.