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Photo taken from the Harty ferry causeway (Sheppey) on the evening of the Kentish Sail Association's Swale Barge Match. Right in the middle of the frame is the bulky form of the old steam coaster VIC96... (more)

Looking across The Swale, the stretch of water separating us from the mainland, from the foreshore at Harty. Directly opposite, we see a pair of larger pylons that carry cables over Oare Creek, thus not obstructing any vessels passing... (more)

These two boxing hares sculptured from wood adorn the lawn just outside the southern entrance to the Ferry House Inn at Harty Ferry.

Unmapped. In the foreground is rather damp saltmarsh, making one wonder how dry it was inside.

A long-range shot of the remote Harty Ferry Inn on the Isle of Sheppey from an equally remote spot on the seawall on Nagden Marsh, over the Swale on the mainland.

Photo taken from the end of the Harty Ferry slipway, at Oare. 'Louise' underwent a refit in 2014, and emerged painted blue rather than red, and with the registration F1 instead of RX378 Link... (more)

The Harty Ferry ran until 1946 and linked the road from Oare on the south side to Harty on the Isle of Sheppey. This view looks across The Swale at low tide to Harty, where can be found the Harty Ferry Inn and Harty Church, the remotest... (more)

This corner of Sheppey - Harty - has a pretty remote feel, being a good few miles by road from the bridge which links the island to the Kent mainland. Once upon a time it had a more direct link to the mainland, as the Harty ferry worked... (more)

Several oysters were to be found on the crumbling concrete near the end of the old Harty Ferry hard. I would have overlooked them, so well camouflaged were they, but someone pointed them out to me. I thought I was photographing just two... (more)