On the Beach ....

The Beach .... 2nd attempt ....Total Mission Success .... stunning weather, lovely beach at Hornsea.
Set off at 0630hrs and had the Humber bridge crossing to ourselves.
Stopped briefly at Withernsea beach then up to Hornsea and some breakfast in one of the many cafe's open for business in the town.
I was accompanied by my Grandson Connor, my "accomplice in crime" .... note the pad for his back as the rack gives him some pain on long rides..

What's good for them is good for us ...the days of tipping our hats to them are over .

Note the packed car park ... and the packed car park in Hull at the Hessel viewpoint .... and on and on ...
STAY IN YOUR HOMES ..... so your lords and masters have the roads to themselves ..... no chance !!

Nice one

Freshly eroded cliffs at Mappleton Beach ..... the coast line in this area moves remorselessly inland every year .... houses, villages ..... all are lost into the sea.

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Landsurfer74 said:

Mappleton Beach

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Nary a rock in sight to hold back the sea. I'm surprised your government isn't fighting back with large boulders to control mother nature. I guess they don't get enough property taxes from that area to justify the cost of keeping those property taxes rolling in.

As a Civil engineering contractor I did a lot of costal protection work involving rock placement,
But circumstances were different, the nearest quarry was a couple of miles from the beach and were quite happy pushing aside the rocks too big to go into the crusher and getting something for them.
So every couple of months or so when the stockpile was getting too big we would get a call.
We had a semi retired 90 Ton excavator with a long stick which we were happy to leave near the beach for light duties like placing a few hundred tons of rocks a day instead of excavating a few thousand tons.
So costs were low and manageable, the county bought the rocks cheap and when we had a few men free we jumped in and placed them,
But that location looks like it is a long way from any quarry, so the rock would have to be a special run with expensive transport, and then then placed in a continuous operation as a full civil engineering project.
And the costs tend to get ridiculously out of hand once you involve engineers in a simple project .
Also, the sheer scale of that project would be huge, requiring special quarries, etc, and the costs enormous,
Those authorizing spending public money tend to favor projects which benefit the largest number of voters, so the chances of a project like this where the beneficiaries are a few farmers who probably already vote for them getting approved is also exceedingly slim!

In the UK a policy of "Costal Retreat" is being brought into play .... instead of defending the coast the environmental approach is to let nature take its course ... villages, roads, hotels are all falling into the sea ..... its all about saving the planet ...

Landsurfer74 said:

In the UK a policy of "Costal Retreat" is being brought into play .... instead of defending the coast the environmental approach is to let nature take its course ... villages, roads, hotels are all falling into the sea ..... its all about saving the planet ...

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It's not like the UK is crowded with people. I mean you only have about 22 times the number of people on a similar sized land mass as New Zealand. You population density is somewhere around 1000 people per square mile. The state I live in "Tennessee" has 154 people per square mile, whereas NZ has 46 people per square mile.

Sounds like you have plenty of land to lose to the sea. NOT!

We have around 5 people per square mile here in South Australia, might help to explain why our Covid deaths were only 4 for our population of 2 million!
Our needs for costal protection are not great, but where it is needed the cost to the county of doing it are a lot less than the alternative of letting their infrastructure fall into the sea..
Done quietly and sensibly, that is, the Costal Protection board either didn't know we were doing it or turned a blind eye and spent their money elsewhere!
God knows where it would have ended if they became involved!