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A staff photographer who flew over the battered Norfolk coastline yesterday took this picture of sea water pouring inland at Cley. The coast road can be seen in the top half of the photograph. |
Flying Over the Battered Coast: Spray at 1000 Feet
Salt Lakes, Wide New Rivers, Shattered Villages
By and "E.D.P." Staff Reporter
I flew with a photographer yesterday over the flood-devastated areas of Norfolk's holiday coast. We were in a twin-engined de Havilland Rapide aircraft - the Cambridge charter firm owning it would not risk a smaller craft in the gale that was still blowing.
The scene ranged from coast protected by high cliffs, against whose bases muddy seas broke angrily in a whirl of dirty yellow foam, to districts like those around Hunstanton, Wells and Salrhouse, where sheets of water stretched a mile and more inland, leaving at their seaward edge devastation comparable to that done by heavy bombing.