This park won an award. It’s a great park to go to but gets muddy after rain, mostly around the entrance between the car park and the park itself. It’s good for picnics and ball throwing. Love it.
A great place at low tide. You can park anywhere along the shore at the Faversham side of Seasalter. CC can run around the sandy bits and in the large puddles then you can walk along the beach, or wall (she doesn’t do pebbles very well), let her run around again and she’d be dry by the time you walk back. Ok at high tide as you could still walk along some beach and the wall. Beware the grabby crabs that might bite a dog’s nose.
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Tankerton and Whitstable are favourite places to go. Whitstable is a great place to bring visitors but a little hard with a dog if you want to eat inside. There is a good fish and chips shop near the beach though. Some pubs/cafes allow dogs only Couscous isn’t best behaved when tied to a table. Tankerton beach is great, specifically at low tide when you can walk out a little way. It’s difficult to get a park by the beach but there are other car parks not too far back towards Whitstable. There is a cafe on the hill behind the loos.
This is not the Beacon Woods near Ashford, but the one near Dartford. It’s a small wood with picnic tables near the car park. It was a clay pit and opened as a public area 20 years ago. Areas of new growth are more open but there are older, shadier areas (with bluebells in April). There are a couple ponds but they were dry when we visited today. The walk is slightly hilly in some areas, steps provided. It’s main path, the red route, is a 30 minute walk through most of the park.
Couscous first visited here when she stayed with Val, while we were in Australia. When we got out of the car she recognised the village and started dragging me off to the retirement home across the road, where Val’s friend lives. Not sure how dogs do that!
Park on the road near the British Pilot pub and follow the public footpath through a field towards the Thames. There is a variety of birdlife. Note that it can be windy but it’s good an a sunny day.
