Westbrook Bay slipway (west)

Westbrook Bay sits on the north Kent chalk coast, between Westgate-on-Sea to the west and Margate Main Sands to the east. A strip of sand stays exposed at high water, and the rest of the bay's foreshore forms part of the wider intertidal chalk reef that runs the length of this coast: Kent & Essex IFCA records 23 kilometres of continuous chalk cliff here, the longest such stretch in the UK. The shore and its inshore water lie within the Thanet Coast Special Area of Conservation, the Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay Special Protection Area and Ramsar site, the Thanet Coast Marine Conservation Zone and the Thanet Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest, together the North East Kent Marine Protected Area. The Special Protection Area regularly supports up to 940 wintering turnstone on this reef and its flats, at least 1.3% of the Western Palearctic wintering population.

Margate's seafront runs immediately to the east. Further west along the chalk shore, the twin towers of Reculver, part of a 12th-century remodelling of St Mary's Church, dominate the skyline near Herne Bay and act as a navigation marker for ships at sea.