Harry's Karate Kamp, Blackshore, Southwold - 5th July 2025

The Karate/Tae-Kwondo class that Harry's in is doing its annual camping trip to the Harbour Campsite near the sea and the River Blyth in Southwold. There's not actually anything in the way of actual Karate happening, but there are plenty of trips to pubs and an entertaining Treasure Hunt on the Sunday - which includes a side-quest to find a rock which "looks like Sean" - and which goes to show that despite having been somewhere loads of times it is still possible to find things never before seen. In between, we also do pizza at the Lord Nelson with Mirka and Jake, and Nosher and Harry get the ferry over to Walberswick to do a bit of crabbing.

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Harry walks along a wall

Harry walks along a wall

An old Lowestoft fishing boat waits for renovation

Huts on Blackshore Quay

Isobel and Harry again

A less-conventional hut

A giant tent acts as a boat-building shed

We stop to pick up some seafood snacks

Looking back along the harbour road

The bar of the Harbour Inn in Southwold

Harry looks up suspiciously

Isobel and Harry out amongst the reeds

We pass some curious almost-windowless cottages

Harry ponders his lemonade

Our pizzas arrive at the Lord Nelson

Harry and the gang on East Street, Southwold

The Lord Nelson on East Street

Harry wags a finger

There's a lovely Triumph Herald convertible

A seagull perches on the Triumph

Harry eats an ice cream

We walk along the promenade for a bit

Dog walking on the wide empty beach

Isobel on Gun Hill

Southwold beach huts

Harry stands on a post

All that remains of a derelict house on Ferry Road

Mirka and Isobel walk into the Sail Loft

Golden grasses wave around in the wind

Fun in the sun behind the Sail Loft

Harry's got his heaphones on

Steps up to the sand dunes

Harry and Isobel hang out at the van

The Walberswick ferry waits at Blackshore

A view up the River Blyth

Harry fills up his bucket

The quayside at Walberswick

Harry does some crabbing

Harry peers over the edge

Harry with his string and bucket

The rowing ferry carries some passengers over

There's a seagull explosion near Harry

The ferry office

The ferry loads up for the trip back

Isobel takes a photo from the Southwold side

An 1894 photo of the Southwold Salt Works

We start filling in answers in the Treasure Hunt

The Red Lion on Queen Street

There's another Renault 4 in Southwold

Mill Lane in Southwold

A nice little sun dial on a wall

The castle-like Sacred Heart of Jesus church

A Masonic lodge, hidden away

The Electric Picture Palace

Isobel fills in some more answers

The four-sided Town Notices box

Harry on the High Street

Isobel gets another answer in the Treasure Hunt

Isobel and Harry emerge into Bank Alley

Isobel on Bank Alley

Cool Capital Bosses on Victoria Street

Harry near Adnams Brewery

The Wesleyan chapel on Cumberland Road

Isobel holds up an Irish sports shirt

The Red Lion's, er, red lion

Isobel outside the Red Lion

A grand building opposite the pub

There's an art exhibition on Gun Hill

Isobel roams around the art exhibition

Isobel and Harry wander around

A couple of Karate lads haul a 'rock' up Ferry Road

Isobel in the Sail Loft again

Inside the Sail Loft

We have breakfast by the camper van

The sea thistle is in bloom

Isobel lays out a blanket on the beach

Ferry Road, and the Sail Loft