Warrenby Travel Guide

 steventilly Says:  Here's the Mrs on the breakwater, doing her best to shelter from the wind. It was a lovely day apart from that arctic gale! ;-) 

 steventilly Says:  There is a lot of birdlife at South Gare, especially wading birds and also Cormorants. These tend to sit on the rocky outcrop or swim in the tidal pools that get left behind at low tide. It was the cormorants that first attracted us to South Gare, as we really love those... 

 steventilly Says:  At the end of the breakwater is a small lighthouse (you can't visit). In fact, you can't access any of the upper part of the breakwater - that really IS private! 

 steventilly Says:  The delights of Harlepool (Greythorpe) Nuclear Power Station, looming large over the beach at the opposide side of the Tees. Right of that (out of the picture) is Seaton Carew and the Headland of Hartlepool (see Hartlepool page). 

 steventilly Says:  This is the view south to Redcar with its steelworks. You can walk right down the beach to Redcar and on towards Marske and Saltburn. The sand really goes on and on and on here. 

 steventilly Says:  There is a breakwater at the Gare, a bit like a pier. It says "no entry" etc etc but you can go on it OK. You can walk down either side of it, choose which side depending on how the wind is. It seems like it's always windy here but you can shelter on one side or other of the... 

 steventilly Says:  There's a cluster of fishermen's huts in a hollow in the sand dunes. Don't ask me what they do or keep in these huts, but they make an interesting and rustic little backdrop, each with their small chimney. 

 steventilly Says:  There's a small old fishing harbour at South Gare (know as "Paddy's Hole"). It's only for liesure fishing these days I think and not serious commercial stuff. The small boats in Paddy's Hole are dwarfed by the huge tanker moored in the distance at the Philips Refinery. 

 steventilly Says:  Tees & Hartlepool is one of the UK's busiest ports and there's a constant movement of shipping. Look out to sea from Redcar on any day and you can see the huge cargo & oil ships waiting for their turn to enter the bay.While we were there the MV "Happy Fellow" was just... 

 steventilly Says:  The Tees lifeboat is stationed at South Gare and the station is open to visitors during most normal day hours, there's even a small shop where you can by RNLI merchandise. Don't forget, the UK lifeboat service is a charitable service and all money for it has to be raised...