Seaside seal of approval
Such a beautiful day, we decided to go for a spontaneous trip to Dungeness, which had so taken my fancy last year. It meant that we could pop in on Pat and Maureen too on the way home. Gorgeous day, and we drove along the coast through Hastings and eventually found our way to Dungeness. It is a strange landscape, very flat and no trees, so that anything vertical can be seen for miles. Gives me slight feelings of overexposure there, but it is manageable. We walked from the car down to the pebbly shore, and Lorraine spotted something poking out of the water. On further sightings we decided it was a seal. Every now and then it would disappear, and on one occasion I saw a sizeable fish leap out of the sea, obviously fleeing a predator. From here we mooched about in the heat. A surreal landscape. Passed by Prospect Cottage once owned by Derek Jarman. It would be lovely to look more closely at the garden. We stopped off at the Pilot for a cold drink, before driving along the coast ...