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 A high spot for mariners is ''Ramsgate'', a "proper" port which has a ferry (4 crossings to ''Ostend''  daily) a marina, and a few working vessels. Outside the summer season, it is fairly quiet, so crossing the  harbour entrance is not a big deal (unlike ''Dover''). Currents of up to 3 knots can be encountered passing the Ramsgate Southern breakwater, which makes life interesting.
-Just South of ''Ramsgate'' lies ''Pegwell Bay'', the "mini-estuary" of the [[East Kent Coast: River Stour | River Stour ]]</a>, a pleasant paddle in its own right. This is a broad and flat stretch of sand, where the sea recedes nearly 3K at  lower water, drying almost all the way to Ramsgate harbour entrance!
+Just South of ''Ramsgate'' lies ''Pegwell Bay'', the "mini-estuary" of the [[East Kent Coast: River Stour | River Stour ]], a pleasant paddle in its own right. This is a broad and flat stretch of sand, where the sea recedes nearly 3K at  lower water, drying almost all the way to Ramsgate harbour entrance!
 The big feature of this whole section is the "tidal offset" caused by the constriction of the Dover Straits. Along this coast, <u>HW is not SLACK WATER</u> ! The tide instead runs NORTH from Dover HW-1.5 to Dover HW+4.5, then reverses for a similar period. (The direction change is "4.5 hours late", in other words).

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 A high spot for mariners is ''Ramsgate'', a "proper" port which has a ferry (4 crossings to ''Ostend''  daily) a marina, and a few working vessels. Outside the summer season, it is fairly quiet, so crossing the  harbour entrance is not a big deal (unlike ''Dover''). Currents of up to 3 knots can be encountered passing the Ramsgate Southern breakwater, which makes life interesting.
-Just South of ''Ramsgate'' lies ''Pegwell Bay'', the "mini-estuary" of the [[River Stour | East Kent Coast: River Stour]]</a>, a pleasant paddle in its own right. This is a broad and flat stretch of sand, where the sea recedes nearly 3K at  lower water, drying almost all the way to Ramsgate harbour entrance!
+Just South of ''Ramsgate'' lies ''Pegwell Bay'', the "mini-estuary" of the [[East Kent Coast: River Stour | River Stour ]]</a>, a pleasant paddle in its own right. This is a broad and flat stretch of sand, where the sea recedes nearly 3K at  lower water, drying almost all the way to Ramsgate harbour entrance!
 The big feature of this whole section is the "tidal offset" caused by the constriction of the Dover Straits. Along this coast, <u>HW is not SLACK WATER</u> ! The tide instead runs NORTH from Dover HW-1.5 to Dover HW+4.5, then reverses for a similar period. (The direction change is "4.5 hours late", in other words).
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-|'''RAMSGATE WEST'''        <br>24 hr sandy bathing beach, parking, nice sheltered launch beside harbour breakwater.            Best car access via the special PORT road off a roundabout the outside town, via a tunnel             through the cliffs. Nice transport cafe just across the road, popular with truck drivers	waiting for the ''Ostende'' ferry. See notes under [[River Stour|East Kent Coast: River Stour]] if planning to enter the river.
+|'''RAMSGATE WEST'''        <br>24 hr sandy bathing beach, parking, nice sheltered launch beside harbour breakwater.            Best car access via the special PORT road off a roundabout the outside town, via a tunnel             through the cliffs. Nice transport cafe just across the road, popular with truck drivers	waiting for the ''Ostende'' ferry. See notes under [[East Kent Coast: River Stour|River Stour]] if planning to enter the river.
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-|'''Shell Ness - Stour''' <br>Entrance to the [[River Stour|East Kent Coast: River Stour]]. South of here is the long sandy beach of ''Sandwich Bay'', where you can land just about anywhere, but with road access difficult until ''Deal''.
+|'''Shell Ness - Stour''' <br>Entrance to the [[East Kent Coast: River Stour|River Stour]]. South of here is the long sandy beach of ''Sandwich Bay'', where you can land just about anywhere, but with road access difficult until ''Deal''.
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-|'''RAMSGATE WEST'''        <br>24 hr sandy bathing beach, parking, nice sheltered launch beside harbour breakwater.            Best car access via the special PORT road off a roundabout the outside town, via a tunnel             through the cliffs. Nice transport cafe just across the road, popular with truck drivers			waiting for the ''Ostende'' ferry. See notes under <a href="http://towerhamletscanoeclub.co.uk/content/SeaAccess.aspx#KentStour" mce_href="http://towerhamletscanoeclub.co.uk/content/SeaAccess.aspx#KentStour">River Stour</a> if 			planning to enter the river.
+|'''RAMSGATE WEST'''        <br>24 hr sandy bathing beach, parking, nice sheltered launch beside harbour breakwater.            Best car access via the special PORT road off a roundabout the outside town, via a tunnel             through the cliffs. Nice transport cafe just across the road, popular with truck drivers	waiting for the ''Ostende'' ferry. See notes under [[River Stour|East Kent Coast: River Stour]] if planning to enter the river.
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-|'''Shell Ness - Stour'''        <br>Entrance to the <a href="http://towerhamletscanoeclub.co.uk/content/SeaAccess.aspx#KentStour" mce_href="http://towerhamletscanoeclub.co.uk/content/SeaAccess.aspx#KentStour">River Stour</a>. South of here is the long sandy beach 		    of ''Sandwich Bay'', where you can land just about anywhere, but with road access 			difficult until ''Deal''.
+|'''Shell Ness - Stour''' <br>Entrance to the [[River Stour|East Kent Coast: River Stour]]. South of here is the long sandy beach of ''Sandwich Bay'', where you can land just about anywhere, but with road access difficult until ''Deal''.
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-==East Kent Coast: North Foreland to Dover==
+[[File:East Kent Coast North Foreland to Dover.jpeg]]
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 This stretch of coast faces Eastwards out into the North Sea. We are out of the Estuary here, so this is
 "real sea" (though calmed at LW by the infamous <i>Goodwin Sands</i>, some 10K offshore,