“There was an amazing structure on the Swale, just around the headland from here, where someone had created their own 'floating home'. They had a pontoon, and they just stuck a caravan on top of it, and someone had just put it there. I mean, one of the things I quite like about the estuary is this sort of ‘chancers’ element, people just thinking, “I want a home by the water, and I'm just going to get a pontoon and stick a caravan on it and pitch it up somewhere”. That was there for years, this little floating caravan, just sort of floating in the water. Which someone, presumably, was using for like their weekend getaway, and slowly it kind of tipped over, and then it sank, and then it was breaking up in the water. 

The estuary has always felt like a place that people are still sort of getting away with things, you know, and there's a certain feral kind of freewheeling nature about people feeling that these locations are quite, you know, undiscovered and overlooked, and therefore you can kind of fly under the radar a little bit in these these places. That appeals to me to a certain extent, but sometimes when it's like people scuttling boats that are then breaking up and causing hazards, then obviously it's not great really for, for other people, or for the wildlife.”