Visit to Flamborough Head and Bempton Cliffs : 5th August 2012
For our second day on the east coast we took a drive out to the lighthouse at Flamborough Head and had a walk around the bay there which was very interesting and we could hear a number of small birds among the grass and wild flowers and plants at the cliffs enge bur they were were hidden and hard to see. There were lots of Swallows flying low along the grass. We decided that the day was nice enough to go over to Bridlington to see if we could get a boat trip on the “Yorkshire Belle” to Bempton Cliffs so we could see the colony from the sea looking towards the cliffs. We parked up (no mean fear there) and headed off to the pier where we hoped to get a boat trip. There was a trip out to Bempton Cliffs but it was a three hour trip starting at 3pm and we couldn’t wait that long. We did however manage to get a trip more or less straight away that went out to Flamborough Head and back so we thought that was better than nothing.