howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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courtesy of the wccp website.
Saturday 11 August 1.00pm - 4.30pm
SAMPHIRE HOE OPEN DAY
There will be displays including coastal collage, badge making and a series of event
over the day. All events: Donations appreciated.
LEADER: Paul Holt, White Cliffs
Countryside Partnership (01304 225649 or 07771 635370). MEET: Site management
office, Samphire Hoe (pay and display car park). The Hoe is sign posted off the A20 from Dover to Folkestone (TR 294 391 or CT17 9FL). Dogs on leads.
1.00pm HOE REPTILE CHALLENGE
Find the answers to the reptile trail and claim your prize.
2.00pm MINIBEAST SAFARI (Green Gang)
We will be searching in the grasslands to see what different types of creepy crawlies we
can find. DISTANCE: 1 mile (1 hour). GRADE: 2
3.00pm CHALK AND BERRY ART (Green Gang)
Time to get messy (please wear old clothes). We will be creating chalk pictures - get inspired! DISTANCE: 1 mile (1.5 hours). GRADE: 2
8.00pm MOTH MADNESS
A chance to discover some of the less well know creatures. We will be running lights to attract moths. DISTANCE: 1 mile (2.5 hours). GRADE: 5 (night).
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Why did they make SAMPHIRE HOE so boring ?
They could have give it a boat Launch ,user friendly slip way and trailer parking for tourist fishermen
DT1- Location: Dover
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It has to be said, that what was there before was really very special.
That being said, what is now Samphire Hoe is pretty good too.
Spent an an hour or two down there with my kids yesterday and had a great time.
Not sure about the idea of tourist fishermen Keith. Hardly in the spirit of protectionism. We made that bit of land and that makes them OUR FISH.
DT1- Location: Dover
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...and as for launches, they can just as easily be LANDINGS.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i find samphire hoe just a little over tranquil with far too much natural beauty.
a couple of amusement arcades, a jellied eel stall and an "i speaK your weight" machine would liven it up.
DT1- Location: Dover
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I hope that the weights would be in Imperial Howard.
Brian Dixon
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dt1,they are all metric these days.
howard,your dispicable,jellied eels and an arcade my foot.if thats the case might as well put a 7 star hotel down there with a race track.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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And a Big Screen !
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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and dont forget the burger bar,and the fish and chip van.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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It's a big slab of concrete with weeds on top, only good for fishing and taking the dog for a poo
DT1- Location: Dover
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Not technically a slab construction Keith.
Hope you don't work in the building industry.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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keith
i have to say that there is something of the philistine about you sometimes.
Alec Sheldon
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It has got to be better than what was there before. I worked there for three years and it was the most depressing place I have seen in my life and I have seen some horrible industrial sites in my time such as steel works and oil refineries.
You should have been there when the spoil was coming out of the tunnel workings on conveyors and dropping into the lagoons when there was a gale blowing. Dust and sh-t every where. I only stuck it because the money was decent.
I would like to see it now, I have only seen it from the train. I don't drive and I don't think that there is any other way of getting down there or is there.?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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wonderful place alec, sheep grazing all types of flora and fauna there.
the shakespeare cliff as a backdrop with adders, pheasants and other creatures there to be enjoyed.
same problem as you with transport.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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And no chippy
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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alec,catch the aycliffe bus,get off at the end of st davids walk around the corner and you will see a foot bridge across the a20,walk across turn right at the end and follow the footpath.brings to the hoe via a tunnell.a cafatria is waiting for you at the car park.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Take your dog with you
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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nah wont take the wife,she refuses to go kieth.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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brian
that walk through the tunnel is a totally depressing experience especially after enjoying the natural beauty of the hoe.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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i no howard,going down is ok but going back up is worse.
at least there is light at both ends of the tunnel.