These amazing images show hundreds of seals and their pups on Scroby Sands in Great Yarmouth.

Eastern Daily Press: An aerial photo taken above Scroby Sands off Great Yarmouth. Photo: Mike PageAn aerial photo taken above Scroby Sands off Great Yarmouth. Photo: Mike Page (Image: Copypright Mike Page, All Rights Reserved Before any use is made of this picture, including dispaly, publication, broadcast, syn)

The animals can be seen in these aerial images enjoying the sunshine.

The sandbank is about a mile off the shore and can be seen from Great Yarmouth's beaches.

Abandoned yacht

Eastern Daily Press: An aerial photo taken above Scroby Sands off Great Yarmouth. Photo: Mike PageAn aerial photo taken above Scroby Sands off Great Yarmouth. Photo: Mike Page (Image: Copypright Mike Page, All Rights Reserved Before any use is made of this picture, including dispaly, publication, broadcast, syn)

A Russian sailor had to be rescued by lifeboat crews twice in the space of a week in December 2015.

The first saw a routine training exercise turned into a real emergency after Caister lifeboat were alerted to a stricken yachtsman. Within 20 minutes two members of the lifeboat crew were on board the yacht Olivia, where they found the yachtsman had injured his right hand.

However, this was not the last that crews would hear from Olivia, as Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat was called to Scroby Sands just six days later, when the yacht again got into difficulty and had run aground on the sandbank.

They tried to tow the yacht off, but weather conditions made it impossible, so the sailor was rescued, and the yacht abandoned and has remained ever since.