[HN Gopher] The Shingle Spit in Whitstable
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       The Shingle Spit in Whitstable
        
       Author : keepamovin
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2024-01-03 04:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | tescocles wrote:
       | My partner's uncle and aunt have a holiday home right on that
       | beach, just down from these pictures. We have of course enjoyed
       | the privilege of staying there. We arrived in the dead of night,
       | and there are no lights on the beach, so finding the house and
       | then the keyhole was difficult to the point the woman next door
       | thought we were trying to break in.
        
       | thom wrote:
       | Rare piece of Kent content on HN! I went to the University of
       | Canterbury, and there's a beautiful walk all the way from
       | Canterbury to Whitstable - absolutely lovely part of the world.
       | Canterbury is a slightly smaller version of other cathedral
       | cities like Cambridge or Oxford and while the university isn't as
       | highly rated (and was mostly architected in the 60s by a guy who
       | also designed prisons), the Computer Science department is really
       | good, especially the coverage of functional programming.
        
         | cjrp wrote:
         | Fellow Kent alumni here! The CS department also has (or had?)
         | the lecturer who wrote the textbook and IDE for most "Intro to
         | OOP" courses, which was cool.
        
           | UncleSlacky wrote:
           | It's like a UKC reunion in here! Lived in Whitstable for the
           | last two years of my degree course, quite often went out on
           | the spit.
        
             | julian55 wrote:
             | I also want to UKC and I lived in Whitstable for my 2nd
             | year in 1974.
        
           | sigwinch28 wrote:
           | BlueJ, David Barnes, and Michael Kolling?
        
             | cjrp wrote:
             | Yep!
        
         | sparrc wrote:
         | I lived in London for 4 years and this walk was my wife and I's
         | favorite. We always took visitors to do it. Really beautiful
         | and from an outsider's perspective feels very "British" :)
        
         | robertlagrant wrote:
         | I'm from Kent, and it's nice to see a familiar name! Normally
         | it's Rochester...New York :)
        
       | cjs_ac wrote:
       | It's shown on OpenStreetMap, but not as a street:
       | https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.3682/1.0330
        
       | rantallion wrote:
       | If this 'disappearing street' interests you, you may also want to
       | check out the causeway that takes one out to Lindisfarne (aka
       | Holy Island) in Northumberland.
       | 
       | Tides allowing, you can drive out to the island and back. And
       | inevitably, each year, people ignore the prominent warnings and
       | crossing times, and end up stranded halfway over - often with a
       | waterlogged engine and nowhere to go.
       | 
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20230214213736/https://www.nytim...
        
         | llimllib wrote:
         | Here in Maine, we have:
         | 
         | - Bar Island, which connects to Bar Harbor for a few hours at
         | low tide. Here's what it looks like at lowest tide:
         | https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/cropped_image/primary/C49...
         | 
         | - the sandbar between little diamond island and great diamond
         | island, which connects the two at low tide. I couldn't find any
         | pictures of this
         | 
         | And probably many similar places beside, those are just the two
         | I know of
        
       | marssaxman wrote:
       | If you like this, you'll love The Broomway, a public right-of-way
       | past a military practice range which gets flooded by the tide
       | every day:
       | 
       | https://thebroomway.co.uk/the-broomway
        
         | DrBazza wrote:
         | Came here to post exactly that. Had a few friends walked this
         | with a guide last summer as it's on their to-do list of trails.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broomway#Notoriety
        
       | paulette449 wrote:
       | Reminded me of the "whale tail" [0] in Marino Ballena National
       | park, Uvita, Costa Rica, though IIRC only the end of the tale
       | floods during high tide.
       | 
       | [0] - https://maps.app.goo.gl/CwXh95BwxiGAt2JZ6
        
       | csours wrote:
       | Peter Cushing live(d) in Whitstable
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ggBDn_Qtk
        
         | jimnotgym wrote:
         | I have seen him buying vegetables
        
       | gadders wrote:
       | For any tourists to the UK, Whitstable is a nice seaside town to
       | visit. Slightly alternative, shops are mostly independent rather
       | than chains, and loads of seafood options. You can get the high
       | speed train from St Pancras in London.
       | 
       | The beaches are all stones, though.
        
       | tonyedgecombe wrote:
       | If you are interested you can buy one of those beech huts (sheds)
       | in the picture for PS80,000.
       | 
       | https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137633717#/?channel=R...
        
       | schiffern wrote:
       | TIL what a "shingle spit" is.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit_(landform)
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingle_beach
        
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