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I've never seen a seal in real life. I want to - and I have occasionally been tempted to go on one of the trips which start out from Blakeney Quay or Morston but baulked at the thought of being part of an armada of boats going out to disturb the peace of the seals. I wondered what the seals thought about it all. I knew I wouldn't like it. And then I saw ''Seal Trip'', painted in 2006, which turns everything on its head. The ''humans'' are laid out on the beach and the ''seals'' are coming in their flotilla of boats to stare, unashamedly, at them. Wonderful!
I enjoy looking at other pictures of the North Norfolk coast. Lewis's pictures evoke the ''feeling'' of a place, rather than the precise detail. I love the pictures of Cromer pier perhaps more than I loved my walk on it when the sea was very rough and I made the mistake of looking down through the boards which didn't ''quite'' fit together... I smiled at Lewis's different take on that much-painted windmill at Cley. I'm glad I bought this book! Serendipity delivered another art book into my hands in North Norfolk. It goes back with me every time I visit: [[On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks by John Hurst]].
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