This picture shows the western end of Lake Lothing to the west of Lowestoft town centre. During Roman times the land under the camera formed an island with tidal water joining the rivers Waveney and Yare, returning to the sea at Breydon Water at Great Yarmouth to the North of Lowestoft. Since then the river estuary has silted up and has been reclaimed for farmland. Lake Lothing has became a separate, tidal, inland extension of Lowestoft Docks.

Around this sheltered inlet there has grown up an extensive marine industry based on boat building. Ship maintenance, dock side chandleries, wharfs, quaysides and warehouses can also be seen. The infrastructure of jobs and professions that this supports includes shops to food processing, education for skippers and crew to specialised schools of boat building and marine research.

Even though the industry based upon fishing for cod and herring has declined rapidly over the last 30 years the marine industry generally has continued to prosper because of recent developments in North Sea Gas. The Broads holiday industry is also a major source of employment in this area along with the seaside tourism of Lowestoft its self.