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Purfleet to Greys, exploring the Thames Path

by Ian Tokelove February 19, 2020

February 19, 2020

Walking the Thames path from Purfleet to Grays and exploring this wild & ragged edge of London. Nature flourishes along this…

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The last picture my camera will probably ever take

The last picture my camera will probably ever take. It slipped from its case and into the river, during today’s river clean-up. It’s done me good, over eight years. I’m trying the silica gel treatment, but I suspect it’s RIP to my little Cannon G7X 📷💦
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#CanonG7X #RIPCamera @BrookMillPark #RiverRavensbourne

Wading a #Ravensbourne tunnel towards new graffiti

Wading a #Ravensbourne tunnel towards new graffiti: a shocked, blue face, framed behind cobwebbed tyres.
Ho Tai was also waiting for us, the laughing Buddha, having tumbled his way downstream from a Hindu temple. We left the small, plaster statue to continue on its way to the Thames.
All part of a @BrookMillPark river clean-up with @lawrencebealecollins, the @healthyriversproject and a bunch of great volunteers.
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Dusk at Deptford Strand - - - #RemoteLondon #Deptf

Dusk at Deptford Strand
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The end of the path, at Brandy Hole on the River C

The end of the path, at Brandy Hole on the River Crouch. The sea wall was deliberately breached 21 years ago, to create new saltmarsh habitat.
It's a road to nowhere, but sometimes, that's a good place to be.
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A walk out from Battlesbridge in Essex to the seve

A walk out from Battlesbridge in Essex to the severed saltmarsh way at Brandy Hole. The River Crouch's remote seawall & path were breached in 2002 to create new intertidal habitats, making up for loss elsewhere. A one-way trip to a wild destination.
This walk along the Crouch passes some expensive real estate & private moorings, but the busy bits are soon left behind. Fab, if you like this sort of thing.
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Deptford foreshore. The timeless beach rewriting i

Deptford foreshore. The timeless beach rewriting its story with every tide. The only voices are those of unseen children, drifting across the empty river from the Isle of Dogs
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Walking out from Rainham, over the wild slopes of

Walking out from Rainham, over the wild slopes of Ingrebourne Hill, where nature thrives on former landfill. In the valley below, the lush river once formed a defensive barrier to RAF Hornchurch, a WWII spitfire base. You can still see Tett turrets here: rare, one-man pillboxes.
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Salt and silt. The Thames rises slow on a summer t

Salt and silt. The Thames rises slow on a summer tide. From #Deptford to Lewisham, swallowing the freshwater flow of the #Ravensbourne
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The River #Roding in East London, following the va

The River #Roding in East London, following the valley upstream, from Redbridge to Debden (both on the Central Line). Sun turned to rain, but we didn’t mind. Purples of loosestrife, balsam, burdock & bramble amid the lush green & distant M11 hum
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Deptford foreshore, the ebbing tide slowing to sla

Deptford foreshore, the ebbing tide slowing to slack, calm solitude by the river
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Lower Halstow, a small, remote village in Kent, ov

Lower Halstow, a small, remote village in Kent, overlooking the #Medway estuary. At low tide, it feels like you could walk out across the mudflats to the distant Isle of Grain, where fuel tanks & gantry cranes dominate the horizon. Cool church too. A walk y'day.
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Deptford foreshore, soft rain, a gently rising tid

Deptford foreshore, soft rain, a gently rising tide. Dripping rainwater echoes below the old jetty
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