06 August 2013

Day Six: A Trip To Dungeness

Trip to Romney Marsh and Dungeness. I was proud of having successfully navigated my way across the Marsh, simply relying on my sense of direction. Despite the looming presence of the hideous nuclear power station, Dungeness is fascinating. It is Britain's only official desert, and consists of one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world, yet has an amazingly rich bio-diversity. We watched dolphins catching their afternoon tea. The photogenic wooden shacks, scattered across the shingle landscape, are like out of a (cowboy) Western movie: the late Derek Jarman (movie director) owned one of the shacks. Dungeness is the other terminus of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway, and seeing the little engine with its long train brought back memories of my only previous visit (by rail) in 1962.

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