title	Eye Karate Kamp, Southwold Harbour, Suffolk - 6th July 2024
intro	Harry's karate club is doing its annual camp-out at the harbour campsite in Southwold, although he's broken an arm and so can't do karate at the moment. Despite that, Isobel and Harry head over on Thursday night to set up, whilst Fred and Nosher head over on Friday afternoon. Harry might as well have stayed at home as he spends most of his time on his tablet, although to be fair most of the Saturday is spent in the van/awning hiding out from some torrential rain. In-between the lashings, we do end up walking into Southwold and doing the arcades for a bit, before we bumb into the rest of the karate group at the Red Lion. The rest of the club heads off looking for somewhere to watch the football, but end up with us in the Harbour Inn, where we've stopped for food and drinks. Before that on the Saturday morning, there's a rare chance to walk around Black Shore Quay at eight in the morning, where it's almost deserted, just before Isobel heads off to go and see Robbie Williams in that London, and afterwards Nosher and Harry are in Norwich for a follow-up x-ray on Harry's broken arm.
imgp3839	The most ambitious DIY project yet commences
imgp3838	The patio awning project commences
imgp3840	Fred roams around a wet campsite
imgp3842	The van and its awning
imgp3846	A view of the rain
imgp3847	Parts of the site look a bit gloomy
imgp3848	Black Shore Quay is deserted early in the morning
imgp3851	The ferry hut is surrounded by water
imgp3852	A Truckman top has been abandoned
imgp3854	The melted roof of Mrs T's chip shop
imgp3855	Fisherman's huts on Black Shore Quay
imgp3856	The rebuild of Mrs T's seems to have stopped
imgp3861	A lone traffic cone
imgp3862	A slipway is blocked by broken wood
imgp3864	Fishing boats undergoing restoration
imgp3867	A destroyed yacht
imgp3872	A pile of derelict fishing boats
imgp3874	Another derelict fishing boat
imgp3876	Another look at the remains of Mrs T's chipper
imgp3880	A pile of fishing detritus
imgp3881	A view of Southwold lighthouse over the marshes
imgp3885	Walberswick, across the river
imgp3886	A couple of cyclists roar past
imgp3892	There's a giant bracket fungus on a tree
imgp3896	Harry scoffs a cheese sandwich in the van
imgp3903	It biblically rains again
imgp3904	We hide out from the rain in the awning
imgp3906	We walk up Ferry Road past the Sail Loft
imgp3908	Lifeguards are out, but it's not really the weather
imgp3909	Southwold Pier in the rain
imgp3910	Fred and Harry look at the sea
imgp3911	We're on the 2p coin shoves again
imgp3912	Fred in the Southwold Pier arcade
imgp3915	The arcade is obviously where it's at
imgp3917	Fred goes retro with a game of Pac-Man
imgp3920	The boys do a Tim Hunkin Under the Pier contraption
imgp3922	An obligatory view of Southwold from the pier
imgp3923	Jabba: The Hut
imgp3925	A beagle sits on the sea wall
imgp3926	We catch up with the karate club at the Red Lion
imgp3927	Fred in the Red Lion
imgp3929	Harry and Fred
imgp3930	The bar of the Red Lion in Southwold
imgp3932	The karate club gang outside the Red Lion
imgp3936	An impressive castle/church on the common
imgp3937	Fred points out plantain on Southwold Common
imgp3939	Harry scopes out the menu in the Harbour Inn
imgp3941	The Harbour Inn's reception
imgp3944	We look out over the common at the Harbour Inn
imgp3946	A view of Southwold in the gathering gloom
imgc20240706_181004	There's a small rainbow over Southwold
imgp3948	Harry looks like he's being electrocuted
imgp3950	Harry in front of the Harbour Inn
imgp3951	Another wall of rain moves in from Walberswick
imgp3959	A nice clinker-built boat is restored
imgp3962	A boat is reflected in a puddle
imgp3963	There's a baby rabbit near the van
imgp3964	Harry does his thing: spend time on a tablet
imgc20240702_095620	Harry waits for a bacon bap in Norwich market
imgc20240702_095943	We eat giant bacon baps on Gentlman's Walk
imgc20240702_134743	Someone's totalled the wall opposite Hartismere