Day out

Started at the Seaview Cafe, Tankerton for a bacon bap and a mug of tea. Al fresco as the sun was already cracking the flags - big props to the folk wading through a full English. Then some time on the beach before heading to Reculver.

I've blipped Reculver before - it's the site of a Roman fort which sat on the banks of the river Wantsum which separated Thanet from the mainland until it silted up. It was also the site of a monastery in the 7th century and in the mid-twentieth century the bouncing bomb was tested off the coast here before being used in the Dambuster raid.  

I don't know the story behind the sunflowers on the fence but who could ignore a shot like that? In the extras you'll see a shot of the towers and of three of the gravestones which date back to the church which was on the site until 1808 when it was demolished before it was taken by the sea through coastal erosion. The date on the left-most gravestone looks to be 1726.