Strolling past the sky-blue beach huts hugging the coastline between Whitstable and Herne Bay, those enjoying the latest section of the 2,704-mile (4,350km) King Charles III England coast path this winter might spot the orange-red bills of the oystercatchers wading in the low tide or the turnstones flipping over beach pebbles with sharp beaks.
On a fine day, walkers who look to the horizon should be able to make out the Maunsell forts among the wind turbines on the Kent flats, armed towers built to provide anti-aircraft fire during the second world war.
