Thu May 7: Dungeness

A few hours to Dungeness, where we drove a mile down a shingle track to the RSPB nature reserve visitor centre. We walked around some of the reserve. It was full of birds, insects and interesting plants. Warblers, Reed Buntings, Little Terns, Egrets, Ducks, Geese, Gulls, Lizards, etc.

Reed Bunting
Reed Warbler
Bee

Then down the road a bit to the Snack Shack, where we had very nice fish baps.

Snack Shack
Lunch

Dungeness is a vast shingle spit. There’s a disused nuclear power station, and Prospect Cottage, Derek Jarman’s house. Lots of Sea Kale.

Sea Kale
Prospect Cottage
Prospect Cottage
Kestrel

We walked down to the sea. A fisherman caught a dogfish.

Fish

Then up the road a mile or so, parked and we walked out across the shingle into the nature reserve to have a look at the sound mirrors, built in the 1920s-30s to listen for incoming attack planes.

Sound Mirrors
Great Crested Grebe
Sound Mirrors

Then drove an hour to Canterbury and checked into the Miller’s Arms.