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On a beach…welcome to manonabeach.com, where I’ll regularly add video of my beach visits, so you can enjoy a flavour of the beach, even when you’re not there.

Botany Bay

Season: autumn

Impressive chalk sea stacks greet you on arrival at Botany Bay. The beach here is the most northern of a cluster around well-to-do Broadstairs. The strand is mostly sand with some shingle. Swimming is safe, featuring clean bathing water and a seasonal lifeguard service. At low tide you can enjoy rockpooling. Just to the west is the artists’ enclave of Margate, so this area has a wide variety of visitor attractions.

The joy of the beach with Jessica,

A bright start to the day at Botany Bay.

Joss Bay

Season: autumn

Located in a rural setting just to the north of Broadstairs on the Thanet coast, Joss Bay is secluded, with steep chalk cliffs behind and with North Foreland golf course as its backdrop. The beach is popular with surfers and water sports enthusiasts. Swimming is safe here, with clean bathing water and a seasonal lifeguard service. Its name reputedly derives from Joss Snelling, a long-lived local eighteenth Century smuggler. Nowadays leisure is the name of the game and there are few more pleasant places to enjoy it in Kent.

Preparing for a big weekend.

Joss Bay in the autumn.

Viking Bay, Broadstairs

Season: autumn

Broadstairs is a quintessential seaside town, with a crescent beach at Viking Bay and a quaint harbour that features fishing boats to the north of the beach. The town is well-to-do and has all the facilities that you’ll need. History is all around you, for example Bleak House, where Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield. There is lifeguard cover in the summer and the bathing water is clean. To top off the setting, there is a cliffside elevator at the southern end of the beach to save any weary legs from the walk up to town. Viking Bay is highly diverse in its attractions.

What the beach means to Nathan.

A fine town beach in Kent.