Monday 8 August 2022

Exploring :: The South East #4 … From Camber Sands to Dungeoness

Hi there everyone πŸ˜ƒ

It was the Tuesday of our week’s break in Kent and finally … we saw sand. It was not by accident … I think I first heard of Camber Sands in that old Squeeze song … Pulling Mussels from a Shell … you know the one … “they do it down at Camber Sands and at Waikiki” … and it was another place that I’d always wanted to see.

We didn’t stay long … just about an hour, but it was long enough to see a totally different beach to those we’d seen so far …

Lots of flat golden sand …
… dunes …

… and traditional brightly coloured English beachside paraphernalia …

We didn’t have to walk far along the beach though to find more gravel …

There was such a change in the level of the beach either side of the breakers … we’d never seen such a dramatic drop off before …
It made a good spot for sitting though and spent a while just taking in the bright sunshine …

…before heading off for Dungeoness.

I just had to get Martin to pull in for this shot though … the vibrancy of the blues and the greens were just stunning in the sunshine and I really loved the look of the wind turbines … they almost looked like just another flock of birds drifting around on the currents ...

Martin and I had been to Dungeoness before but it was new to mum. It is just so different … we certainly have seen seen to anywhere else anywhere else quite like it and I can imagine it being pretty wild with bad weather but n the bright sunshine, with clear blue skies it is strangely beautiful …
It really does feel like you are right on the edge of the world …
It’s hard to imagine how people survive in the small wooden houses, which just seem to be dotted about randomly, but clearly they do …



We stopped off at the lifeboat station on the way back to the main road, where we had a long chat with one of the crew about the number of calls they now received as a result of small boats making the perilous crossing from France and, whilst this is clearly a political issue, it was heart wrenching to hear some of the tales he had to tell …

From Dungeoness we followed the coast, stopping off at Littlestone beach … lured by the row of pretty beach huts …

…being carrying onto to Dymchurch where lunch was a picnic along the front … following a visit to some of the most horrific public toilets I’ve ever come across …

We didn’t really get to see the beach as the tide was well in, but I’ve just googled it and it looks like it’s another nice Sandy beach … I’m sad we didn’t get to see it πŸ˜ƒ

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6 comments:

  1. Have enjoyed your adventures in Kent & although I've been to Dungeoness, it was just a quick trip. Did you see the cute little blue train? It was all booked up, so we didn't get to take a ride, but I was quite impressed with the place, so unlike anything out here. Thanks for sharing, take care & hugs.

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    1. Thank you Susan ... no we didn't see the train but it was indeed a place like nowhere else we've ever been. I't almost otherworldly if you know what I mean :)

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  2. Dungeoness surprisingly appears on my living room wallpaper. It's on a print by a company called mini moderns, whose creaters have a cottage there. So the buildings you have photographed are what I see from my sofa. Would love to go there for real !

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    1. Oh that wallpaper sounds fabulous. It is definitely somewhere worth a visit if you ever get the chance. We've never been anywhere quite like it :)

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  3. Fascinating post. When I was a child we used to visit Camber Sands. So interesting to see your pictures of Dungeness, and I loved your shot of the wind turbines at Camber.

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    1. We've never really spent any time in the South East so it was all new to us. I couldn't resist stopping for the wind turbine shot. The colours were just so vibrant :)

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