In January, tidy stacks of reeds, harvested from reed beds beside the River Waveney, and laid out along its banks to dry, line this section of the private track that traverses The Island: some right beside the track and some others above, on the high bank of the river. The woodland seen in the distance is Waveney Forest.

The Island is a roughly triangular-shaped area consisting of marsh pastures, surrounded by the River Waveney in the east and the River Yare in the west; the New Cut connects both rivers. It forms the border in the southwest by cutting diagonally across it from Reedham in the NW to St Olaves in the SE.

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