As the tides have been suitable this week I have spent a couple of days wreck hunting down on the shore. The first trip was to the Grimsby end just outside the lock gates where there is the wreck of the Good Tidings. Although easy to find, in patches the mud is a tad gloopy and has a tendency to suck your boots off!! The next day I made a trip to the other end of the beach at the south end of of Cleethorpes. Here there is the wreck of an old seine netter that I think may have been scuttled on purpose to dispose of her. This site is somewhat easier to get to as the beach is firmer here. In both cases though low tide is a must!!! Both are very photogenic. I was lucky with the weather on both occasions and on the second we enjoyed fish and chips afterwards sitting on the sea wall. Magic.
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Images below of The Good Tidings.
Images below of the purse seiner at the south end.
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| Spurn Point in the background. |
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| Ancient and Modern |
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| Wreck and Bull Sand Fort. |
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| A sinuous small creek runs down to the tide. |
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| Jetsam |
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