The enigmatic Creek Men, as they are called, started life at the sculptor's foundry near Butley Mills at the head of the Butley River, a tributary of the River Ore in Suffolk. This is where I first saw the three giant figures silhouetted menacingly against the sky when they had been positioned temporarily on the seawall at Easter this year.
In June they started their journey up the Rivers Ore and Alde to Snape. Shortly afterwards Laurence Edwards described this epic voyage on BBC Radio 4's Mid Week programme when he spoke to Libby Purves. They had some scary moments particularly through the moorings at Aldeburgh where the tide was running hard. Eventually the raft bearing its strange cargo was towed through Troublesome Reach, past Iken and into the tortuous upper reaches of the Alde to be moored in the mud among the reed beds at Snape.
The giants have been attracting a great deal of attention all summer and have already become part of the scenery. However, fear not if you are intending to take a boat up to the Maltings, they off to one side of the creek itself, so they do not present a hazard to navigation.