World Tour of Kent Day 4

We went to Dungeness today. Never been there before. It's definitely a very different environment – flat, bleak, windy, miles and miles of shingle. Famous for a nature reserve, a nuclear power station and Derek Jarman's garden. It was the latter which was of most interest to us, coming a short second to the anachronistic opportunity of visiting a nuclear power station by narrow-gauge steam engine. Rather disappointed that the locomotive pulling our doll's-house train carriages turned out to be a diesel and not one of several steam engines available to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, but hey, not the end of the world.
The description of the garden at Prospect Cottage in my wiki link to Dungeness at the start of this text really does not do Jarman's work justice (extra 1), so I hope my images help to explain for those of you unlikely to visit it for yourselves.
The blank canvas is this endless shingle. Jarman has collected white stones and grouped them into islands, and then planted those with hardy colourful plants – bright yellow, orange and pink (extra 2). He has an old fishing boat where his garden meets the road (extra 3) and has laid out his pebble beds in the same size and shape of this boat leading out directly from his door towards the road (extra 4).
We also visited the snack shack, a local fresh fish eatery with wooden benches out on the shingle. Excellent! Some of the very best fish either of us have ever eaten.