Mud Berths ~ Daily Sketch 03/11/2013

Jetty/Strood Channel ~ Daily Sketch 01/11/2013

The Scrubbing Posts ~ Daily Sketch 29/10/2013

View Towards the Hammerhead ~ Daily Sketch 27/10/2013

Lifeboat Shed & Seawall ~ Daily Sketch 20/10/2013

Approaching Rain ~ Daily Sketch 19/10/2013

Barge and Reeds at Snape ~ Daily Sketch 17/10/2013

View to Orford Ness ~ Daily Sketch 16/10/2013

Reed Beds at Snape ~ Daily Sketch 15/10/2013

Towards the Lifeboat Shed ~ Daily Sketch 06/10/2013

Flooded Saltings ~ Daily Sketch 05/10/2013

Creek, The Strood ~ Daily Sketch 25/09/2013

Strood Channel at Dusk ~ Daily Sketch 24/09/2013

The Lane & Old Victory ~ Daily Sketch 03/08/2013

'Dawn' Last of the Stackies ~ Daily Sketch 02/08/2013

Creek ~ Daily Sketch 01/08/2013

Creek & Strood Channel ~ Daily Sketch 31/07/2013

A Marsh Pool ~ Daily Sketch 30/07/2013

Sunset & Trees Facing N.W. ~ Daily Sketch 11/06/2013

A Gift From East Berlin ~ Daily Sketch 07/06/2013

House Across the Street ~ Daily Sketch 06/06/2013

These beautifully made 'mock Tudor' houses were built by Clifford White of Mersea in 1933 and were the first to benefit from mains electricity when it arrived in the mid 1930's from across the Strood!

Next Door Through Trees ~ Daily Sketch 05/06/2013

The Lane, West Mersea ~ Daily Sketch 04/06/2013

The Nothe, West Mersea ~ Daily Sketch 03/06/2013

A Quiet Corner of the Garden ~ Daily Sketch 02/06/2013

Letters, Shell, Feather ~ Daily Sketch 01/06/2013

Sunset Saltings ~ Daily Sketch 31/05/2013

Creek & Seawall ~ Daily Sketch 30/05/2013

Bike in the Garden ~ Daily Sketch 28/05/2013

Houseboats at High Tide ~ Daily Sketch 21/05/2013

Strood Channel ~ Daily Sketch 20/05/2013

Through the Doorway ~ Daily Sketch 16/05/2013

Tunnock's Teacake ~ Daily Sketch 15/05/2013

Flowering Rapeseed ~ Daily Sketch 14/05/2013

Evening Light, The Nothe ~ Daily Sketch 13/05/2013

Oyster ~ Daily Sketch 12/05/2013

Saltmarsh at Dusk ~ Daily Sketch 11/05/2013

Breakwater & Shells ~ Daily Sketch 10/05/2013

View Across the Old Cricket Pitch ~ Daily Sketch 09/05/2013

Although this piece of Mersea island is now returned to its more natural state of saltmarsh and reed beds and thankfully protected by its village green status, it in fact used to be an old cricket pitch according to Mersea Island folklore. You can glean a bit more information from the town council site here. The blue houseboat you can see is called 'L'esperance' and was once home to acclaimed concert pianist Semprini, beyond which is Besom creek or 'buzzen' in the local vernacular, beyond that is another Mersea Island icon The Packing Shed.

And here is the old cricket pitch in all its 1960's postcard litho. colour glory!

Jetty Across the Marsh ~ Daily Sketch 08/05/2013

The End of the Breakwater ~ Daily Sketch 07/05/2013

Orange Trawler, Strood Channel ~ Daily Sketch 06/05/2013

Robinia Tree ~ Daily Sketch 05/05/2013

Cloud Forms over Wigborough ~ Daily Sketch 03/05/2013

Saltmarsh at the Strood ~ Daily Sketch 02/05/2013

View Towards Ray Island ~ Daily Sketch 01/05/2013

Cloud Above the Saltmarsh ~ Daily Sketch 30/04/2013

Stump ~ Daily Sketch 29/04/2013

Rhubarb ~ Daily Sketch 28/04/2013