With spring tides hitting the north Norfolk coast at the weekend, many would have thought to have steered clear - but for others, it proved the perfect excuse to hit the waves.
Dave Fincham, a car park attendee in Blakeney, was working on September 3 when the spring tide hit the county.
He is there to advise and manage the car park during this sort of tide, such as directing people to the overflows and fencing off part of the car park to help drivers.
“We have signage for no overnight parking, and we advise people not to park in certain areas, but people still park there,” he said.
“This was the highest tide of the year and if someone parked overnight it would have been at their, and the car’s peril, and it is not always tourists, it can be locals as well.
“But, the desire to be in Norfolk means everyone, from tourists to paddle boarders will head to the coast to take it in.”
These high tides also affected Brancaster, with another car park just over 17 miles away, Louise Edge, a paddleboard instructor from Heacham took out paddleboarders and kayakers to enjoy the water.
Miss Edge took her paddleboard out on the road a few weeks ago during another high tide, but found her paddle scraping the road - so she looked into it and found this spring tide and made sure she took advantage.
“We headed up from Brancaster Staithe to the car park using the flow of tide to push us, paddled around the car park until the tide hit its highest point and it then pushed us all the way back,” she said.
“This high tide was awesome, we can paddle at high tide at staithe, but you are going through reed banks, so to do something like this and go out as far as this is phenomenal to experience."
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