Isle of Thanet

We spent a few days' vacation with my parents in a part of the UK none of us had ever visited. Interestingly the Isle of Thanet is no longer an island; it's more like a peninsula jutting out of the southeast of England, but in Roman times Thanet was separated from the mainland by a channel of water a mile wide in places, where ships sailed. This channel has filled in overtime. Unique geological history, but we engaged in more touristy pursuits:

Sophia climbing and going down an enormous slide

 

 The girls ride in a ladybug.

 Sophia braves the cold sea.

 Broadstairs beaches

 

 White cliffs and lots of seaweed

 

The following are from the Shell Grotto in Margate:

 

Unknown persons at an unknown time decorated walls of several underground rooms with millions of shells in complex patterns.

 Hole in the ground through which the Shell Grotto was first discovered in the 1800s.

 Wes in the Shell Grotto.

 The colors the shells in the Grotto would have been originally.

Sophia & Alathea outside a pub where we tried a lot of different seafood.

At the Broadstairs Water Gala