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Offbeat

This is where things take a different tack, change direction and become a bit weird . . .

For me boredom rots the brain, makes us fat, depressed and stir crazy. That's why I'm always on the lookout for new hobbies to try, places to go and things to see. All the better if no money is spent! Here's a few of them . . .

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Durian fruit
Mmm . . . tasty
Food
Magnet Fishing 7
Electric
Magnet fishing
macro photography
Small, very small
Macro photography
paddle 5
Chilly!
Dipping your toes
Blood Moon 4
Lunar lunacy
Blood moon
unexploded bomb 4
Pure dynamite . . .
UXO
Lifeboat Newhaven 4
Ahoy there!
Lifeboats
lightvessel 4
Illuminating
Lightvessels
causeway 5
Check the tides . . .
Causeways
Off Grid 7
Time for something different
Off grid living
Buoys 4
Just bobbing along
Big buoys
Piers 1
Helter skelter
Pleasure piers
Medway Queen Paddle Steamer 3
All aboard!
Paddle steamer
Waymarkers 9
This way and that
Waymarkers
Helens Pretty Vintage 5
Do not drop
Collectibles
Willows Bird of Prey Centre
Come fly with me . . .
Feathered friends
Rolled dinosaur bone
Dem bones, dem bones
Jurrasic park
Seals on Goodwin Sands
Beach babes
Seals
Green sea algae seen off St Leonards, East Sussex
Neither plant or animal
Sea algae
House at St Margaret's at Cliffe rented by Ian Flemming
Bond, James Bond
Film buffs
River barges found along the Medway and Thames rivers
Drifting no more
Rotting hulks
Selsey Lifeboat Station, West Sussex.
SOS
Lifeboat stations
Jury's Gap, Lydd Firing Ranges, Kent
Duck!
Danger zone
Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Dartford, Kent
Your majesty
Thames crossing
Chalk figures
Sunny white horses
Chalk figures
ramsons
Wild, they were furious!
Ramsons
Chalybeate Spring on the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Iron rich
Royal spring
Submerged forest at Pett Level, East Sussex
Woodland walk
Submerged forest
Harmer terracotta plaque
A grave business
Headstone art
Memento Mori headstone
Who lies here?
Memento mori
Geocaching around the UK
Now, where did I put it?
Mystery boxes
Font at St Antioch church, Lower Halstow, Kent
No splashing
Church font
Petticoat Lane Emporium, Ramsgate, Kent
Cheap as chips
Bargain hunt
MMSV Starbuck berthed in Ramsgate, Kent
Not a coffee in sight
SSMV Starbuck
WWII anti-tank devices
Don't get bitten
Dragon's teeth
Dinosaur footprint, Pett Level, East Sussex
Tread carefully
Dinosaur footprints
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