Kent Coast Walk - Cliffe to High Halstow!

Great to see someone enjoying this part of Kent, if you get a chance there is another route inland, which goes through the villages of Cliffe, Spendiff, Cooling and onto High Halstow. (I live here, and it is a wonderful place),

Good video mate, I live in the area and go fishing off the sea wall all around there, lovely calming place as you said. Good job.

Coming late to your videos but enjoying them. Thanks. I used to visit the RSPB Cliffe Pools back in the 1970s for birding. Fantastic marsh views. Had a few good pints in the Six Bells pub after a long walk around the ponds in August 2019 with my brothers when I was last back there. Plenty of sweet bramble berries along the trail!
That black beetle looks like a Devil's Coachman.

well done mate, watched all of your videos, so amazing how much there is to explore, i live on Sheppey and love the coast here.

I did the exact same walk in August this year…. Had to smile when you had a peak over the sea wall (by the sign that said keep to the path) as I did exactly the same in exactly the same place!…. Although I camped at Egypt Bay and picked up in High Halstow the next day 👍 nice vid 👌

Hi Sidney, it’s a coachman beetle

Thank you for this of course-very nice views too. I live near Dartford and have been to the area before around the Thames going out to the Estuary further on of course too. Thank you for your other videos too!

Hi
Egypt Bay was given it's name after artifacts from Egypt were uncovered. Even before Roman times historical records show that the north Kent coast was a part of the trade route between the eastern Mediterranean and south east England or what would have been the kingdom of the Kants.
I often walk sections of the Thames Estuary, and in the 1970s worked as a shepherdess on the north Kent marshes. There is a haunting beauty here and much wildlife with RSPB sites including the ones at High Halstow and Cliffe Pools. I often spot egrets and lapwings.
Of course the whole area is a backdrop to Dickens, ''Great Expectations", and the fictional prison ship from whence Magwich fled to startle Pip in the graveyard of St James' in nearby Cooling. There are no records of prison ships along the Thames Estuary. It is believed that on one of his many walks from Gads Hill some 6 miles or so inland saw a huge ship moored near Egypt Bay. In fact this would have been the coast guard ship. Throughout out the 18th centuary and into the 19th Centuary there was much smuggling of brandy and silk from France which was hidden in farsteads and hamlets and the lonely Shade House before being transferred into London. There are records of prison ships near Upnor on the Medway to the south of the peninsula .

the obelisk is Lower Hope Point.