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This is the view with your back to the water. Rows of beach huts followed by the houses closest to the beach.
©Wendy Gasperazzo
Dist:0.2km<br/>Exclusive apartments and colourful beach huts overlook the sea at West Mersea.
©Bob Jones
Dist:0.2km<br/>At low water this groyne is completely exposed. The sandy beach becomes increasingly stony as the sea is reached.
©Bob Jones
Dist:0.2km<br/>These beach huts front directly onto the sandy beach, but well above the high water mark of ordinary tides.
©Bob Jones
Dist:0.3km<br/>This second tier of beach huts has an outlook across the top of the front row, on the beach.
©Bob Jones
Dist:0.3km<br/>Much of West Mersea beach is just typical sand with some pebbles but in places the tide has corralled a mass of shells into a single area, as in this totally random and unarranged selection.
©Zorba the Geek
Dist:0.4km<br/>At low water the tide has receded well beyond the end of these groynes. The sign on the nearest beacon says 'Warning Bathers'. Oh yes, they can be quite dangerous, those bathers.
©Bob Jones
Dist:0.4km<br/>Seen from the balcony of a 'second tier' West Mersea beach hut.
©Stuart Shepherd
Dist:0.4km<br/>Most of the beach huts are empty and firmly shuttered for the winter, despite a warm October day.
©Bob Jones
Dist:0.4km<br/>West Mersea out of season (you can park on the front!)
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.4km<br/>A pair of anchors and a flower-filled boat decorate the grassy bank above the lines of beach huts at West Mersea.
©Bob Jones
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is the last remaining of four WW2 gun emplacements on West Mersea seafront. Three were converted to retail outlets and one to a rain shelter. The rough concrete has been rendered for aesthetic reasons. You can see the café from the other direction at [[2576004]]
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is a section of West Mersea beach at about half tide. Mersea is just one of the more significant of a large number of islands in the muddy marshes of the Essex coast. The silhouette in the distance is Bradwell Nuclear Power Station [[242333]]
©Zorba the Geek
Dist:0.5km<br/>This Café is built in a WW2 gun emplacement. Until the early 1970's there were two at this point, the other was converted into a rain shelter. It became rather insanitary despite a public convenience a few yards away and so demolition ensued. Buses stopped terminating on the Esplanade in the 1950's for fear of them causing subsidence into the soldiers dormitories under the road. There is another closer view at [[2576024]]
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km<br/>West Mersea old fire station, Melrose Road, Mersea Island, Essex
©Kevin Hale

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