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