Reclaim The Beach

My brother had to take another enforced day off due to the train strikes so we thought we would take the chance to engage in another coastal excursion and decided to make a quick dash down to Whitstable. The journey took longer than usual as it was punctuated by roadworks and traffic diversions but we still managed to arrive just after midday.
Of course the first thing we did was head to The Old Neptune pub right on the West beach, as has become our tradition when we visit Whitstable, for what turned out to be a rather windswept and bracing al fresco pint looking out across the oyster beds and to the sea beyond. My main image was taken as we took our post pint constitutional - the sign attached to the groyne has been stamped over with the slogan ''reclaim the beach" by Whitstable's answer to Banksy. The tiny figure on the shoreline is actually my brother attempting to get his image for blip.
My first two extras were taken as we circled back towards town along the promenade passing a row of hibernating beach huts. I must admit I hadn't really noticed the guy in the hoodie walk into the frame in the first extra and the second extra is a close-up of the chained up boat with a section of the blue and white stripes of a beach hut in the background.
The last extra is one of the buoy markers at low tide which warns of the danger of the nearby oyster trestles where the oysters are cultivated and which have caused conflict between a local beach campaign and the fishery company who own the beach and farm the shellfish.
The beach campaigners argue that the presence of the oyster trestles on the foreshore is a wholly modern construction and have objected to the industrial scale of the development (it has expanded to over 30 times its original size in just over a decade arguably without the correct planning permission) on multiple grounds including environmental factors, loss of amenity (it occupies an area which has been used for water sports and leisure for over 200 years) and public safety. They also maintain that this type of development would only normally be allowed much further out at sea rather than slap bang in the middle of a seaside resort and that the oysters that are cultivated are an invasive non-native species (called  the pacific oyster - also rebranded as the "rock oyster") rather than the local native Whitstable oyster on which the town's historic reputation as an oyster producer was built.
The fishery company say they can trace their roots in the town back to 1793 and that after overfishing, pollution and much cheaper imports almost led to the demise of the entire industry by the 1960's they have rebuilt their business attracting jobs, revenue and tourists to the town.