Winterton Beach
WINTERTON BEACH: Temporary helicopter landing site
Location: Just E of Winterton-on-Sea, about 8nm N to NNW of Great Yarmouth town centre
Period of operation: 21st May 2012
Note: The local area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: We have Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', to thank for pointing out this occurrence. And, without any doubt, a degree of levity is more than welcome in what is, to such a large extent, a really quite serious project, to record as many flying sites in the U.K. as possible.
However, right from the start it was realised that trying to record where helicopters have landed was an impossible task. And indeed, even most private residence helipads have been ignored - there are just too many.
But....there are always exceptions to any rule, and this is a great example. Not least because a local photographer, Mr Adrian Buck, was on hand to record the event. It appears that a Search and Rescue Sea King out of WATTISHAM, was undertaking a typical training exercise along the coast, when the crew decided it would be highly desirable to land and obtain ice creams for the four of them. And why not?
Needless to say, this is not part of normal Search and Rescue operations, far from it of course, but I would like to think that this episode amply illustrates how these crews need to be ever vigilent, always searching for inventive ways to rescue those in peril.
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