Forty minutes walk from Stanford-le-Hope railway station, along residential avenues and a service road that leads to the nature reserve, past a single story brick built municipal transformer station that hummed in the hot afternoon sun, down a stony footpath where we stopped to pick blackberries and over the freight railway line to the nearby London Gateway deepwater container port via the level crossing, we found this hidden away beach. It is set back from the main channel of the Thames in a small bay. The beach was empty except for one other family. We put the microphones to record in a sheltered spot and retired to brew tea on a camping stove, then relaxed to the lapping waves and the sound of the children playing happily in the sand. This is almost twenty four minutes of pure bliss As the tide goes out and the waves change. The engine of a marine vessel moored some way off emits a low bass note. Occasionally a deep industrial thud can be heard from the container port. Towards the end the mud slightly fizzes as it is exposed to the air. A lone bird calls faintly as it scours the fresh mud for food. A propellor plane hums distantly over in the South West.
123 A sound-view from Orcombe Point on the Jurassic coast
122 Forest bathing in the cathedral of trees
121 On Portland Bill
120 Secrets in the spring air - inland coastal country
119 Dawn chorus in the rain high in the Derbyshire hills
118 Lullaby sea by Nothe Fort (sleep safe)
117 Dartmoor birds through white noise mist
116 Sissing plantations in open country
115 Coastal city sleeping (sleep safe)
114 Crashing waves at Durdle Door
113 Spring’s here in mild valley
112 Suffolk Wood (part 12) - 7am to 8am
111 Soundscenes of estuary rain
110 Rain falls in Banfield Wood
109 Here at the river’s edge
108 Song thrush sings in twilight gales
107 Shellness bleak where land meets sea (best heard with time and headphones)
106 In time the wren will come - Murmurs of the Kerry Ridgeway
105 Boy dog beach fossils
104 While away in winter woodland (a clear mind special)
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