Leaving the town of Ipswich and we are under the Orwell Bridge. This is a huge concrete span across River Orwell’s estuary. A better view of it is afforded just along the road in the posh Suffolk Food Hall coffee shop. We are now on a peninsular of Shotley
Further along the towards Shotley flat lands run up to the Orwell estuary’s edge, plundered by Curlew, Oystercatchers and cackling gulls. Boats rest up for the winter.
Shotley was once home of HMS Ganges a navel-training establishment. Th...