A Stick and a Float
Many different dwellers live on or around the waterways that make up the beautiful Norfolk Broads. Some are residents all year round others are visitors that flock in the warmer months, many will return again and again captivated by the magic they find that makes them feel as if they are in their own special realm. ‘A stick and a Float’ is the first of a series of postcards sharing the joy that is the Norfolk Broads.
Visit collection: Wonderful Britain
Weave a way through reeds and sedge
come closer to the water's edge.
Peer deep in reflections before they shift
Glance at an otherly world of eels and fish
Navigate flat marshes under vast skies
Watch a myriad of birds dip and dive
See a dart of electric blue, glimpse
a kingfisher vanishing from view
Spy grey herons on spindly legs
being statues at the water's edge,
and just as still with a stick and a float
spy a fisherman in a waterproof coat
Hear murmurs in the golden reeds
of dreams that start sowing the seeds
to the one in a boat holding the helm
whispering the waters are his realm.
Light bounces and plays, morphing the days
entrancing the dwellers of these waterways.
- A Stick and a Float
- and your very own boat
- The Norfolk Broads
- Norfolk UK