WALK & WILDLIFE WATCHING

The Norfolk Broads offer a unique landscape within the UK, but they do not manage and maintain themselves. This day is designed to show you two completely different approaches to the conservation and sustainable management of the Norfolk Broads. Our suggestions will take you on a tour of Salhouse Broad; to lunch at a local pub, home to one of the UK’s best known independent breweries.

• There are a variety of habitats; oak woodland, wet alder carr woodland, marshy sedge beds, sandy heath, grassland and open water, all of which you pass through as you walk from the car park down through the woods to the Broad’s edge
• This is an all-season delight, with bluebells and lesser celandines in the Spring, peacock butterflies and banded demoiselle damselflies in the Summer, hawthorn, holly, parasol mushrooms and inkcaps in the Autumn, with wildfowl sheltering on the Broad in the Winter
• You can enjoy refreshment from the ice cream boat plying its trade around this part of the Norfolk Broads, and perhaps take the Water Taxi which runs Sunday to Thursday from Easter to mid-September across to Hoveton Great Broad Nature Trail, not accessible from land, a true wilderness within the Broads National Park
• Make your way to the Fur & Feather Inn at Woodbastwick for lunch, turning left out of the Broad car park. Attached to the Woodforde’s Brewery, this iconic Norfolk inn serves great beer and food in a picturesque setting. With a regularly changing menu offering a combination of classic and more imaginative dishes, including an innovative selection for vegetarians, there is bound to be something for everyone!
• The Brewery Shop is also worth a visit after lunch, selling the full range of Woodforde’s beers in bottles and boxes, in addition to a range of gifts and local produce. You can even arrange a tour of the brewery