retiredmartin

July 2025. Spurn Head.

Back in 2019 I wrote about the need for Hull CAMRA to get a move on and re-open the Dolphin, just off Spurn Head’s western edge.

Six years on, no progress. Still, let’s blame COVID and Corbyn, eh ?

With the threatened deluge nowhere in sight, I set off for Spurn Head to take a look.

ChatGPT said 8 miles there and back from Kilnsea pillbox, so 3-4 hours walk through what’s left of the road.

Flora and fauna,

and abandoned rope,

but mostly sand.

Ooh, a seal !

And another one, all apparently getting closer every time I turned my head, like the weeping angels in Dr Who.

I pressed on, as sand turned to crumbling tarmac,

meeting only a cyclist and a couple from Leeds, the bloke in a Kaiser Chiefs beanie hat.

“We’ve seen LOADS of seals, they were practically eating from our palm“. Really.

After an hour I reached the refuge. Sadly, no-one had left emergency chocolate rations.

I asked my companion what I might find at the very end beyond the lighthouse I was approaching.

Cut off at high tide ! NOW you tell me. No wonder I hadn’t met a soul for 20 minutes; I just assumed the tourists got no further than the flash cafe at the visitor centre. I checked when high tide was today. Now !

Time to dash back, unnecessarily as it turned out, just in time to get the reduced price savouries from the cafe and read the warning.

Mild peril, but peril nonetheless.