After Lindisfarne and en route to Whitby we stopped late afternoon at Seahouses, mostly because we liked the name and associated it with the Farne Islands just offshore. A seaside holiday town, what really caught our attention was the local volunteer lifeboat returning from exercises at sea. We were lucky to catch their arrival back in the harbour and then the process of hauling the boat out of the water to storage in a nearby boatshed. Conversations with a couple of the volunteers fleshed out our understanding of the role they play.
From the harbour walls we could look out to the Farne Islands, now a bird sanctuary, and also back to the pile that is Bamburgh Castle which we could see from Lindisfarne and had passed en route to Seahouses.
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