Sunday

There had been some rain in the night but the morning dawned bright and sunny. The children went off exploring and soon came back to say they’d discovered the sea and could they go in. After suncreaming and swimsuit finding all the children headed off and Michelle, Suzy and I went with them. Suzy went in the water while Mich and I sat and watched them all having fun and wading out far too deep (Scarlett!). Eventually some wandered back to sit with us and we realised Davies and Ben had mananged to miss us sitting on the beach and go back. Davies had made it all the way to the campsite but Ben had sat down, upset and feeling lost on the sand dunes. Scarlett was cold anyway so I went back with her and caught Davies up.

Eventually we decided enough people should have packed up and left to make it worth looking round for a new pitch so Babs, Marcus, Ady and I set off to look while the others stayed with the children. We found a couple of potential spaces – one was deemed too small and too rocky and not near the sand, the other was deemed too near the road and tantalisingly close to the sea enough for the children to want to go there but without a safe route down there. Everywhere else was either too sloping or not right for various other reasons. After much debate we decided to stay in the sand dunes and move down to a larger, flatter area adjacent to where we were already camped as the people there had now moved on.

In the same way we have done at campsites in Newgale and Kessingland we simply walked our tents across the site and re-pitched. Well I say simply, it worked ok for our littler tent but just as Ady, Katy and I untethered Katy’s tent a gale force wind blew up and the heavens opened. We yelled for help and managed to get it over there (I was all tangled up in guy ropes and walking over thistles in bare feet, Michelle was getting smacked in the face by the sopping wet flappy tent and we all got drenched bracing ourselves and the tent against the wind and rain while Katy pegged it to secure it. It was one of (several) less fun moments of the holiday. But Ady did point out Katy’s pants which were slightly exposed said ‘Happy Pants’ all around the top which did a good job of cheering us all up ;).
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We bought sausages and rolls from the onsite shop (very well stocked and quite reasonable, they have a mini supermarket, camping shop and gift shop on site and you can buy take-out beers and wine from the pub) and I think we just about managed to eat before it started raining again. We were all in our tents before it was even dark and I was so pissed off with the world in general I went to bed!