Walk along the beach from the steps at Happisburgh to Cart Gap. 14 February 2004
Compare with previous walk - 1 June 2003
 The steps still provide the only safe access to the beach from the village. |
 A modification is the addition of some plywood to the mesh. |
 The view back towards the remains of the ramp, with the RNLI boathouse and Coastguard station on top. |
 The cliff here is still eroding, but the top section spans quite a way in from the edge. |
 Some of the remains of the ramp were removed for safety reasons, still more collapsed recently |
 Little now remains of this once well-defended access. |
 To the south of the ramp, more ground has been lost. |
 Sad remains of the southern part of the revetments. The beach should be at least level with the top of the now exposed steel shuttering. |
 Although unsightly, this tubing buried after the war has been providing valiant protection for this corner. Notice the precariously perched garages behind the tea shop. |
 Although unsightly, this tubing buried after the war has been providing valiant protection for this corner. Notice the precariously perched garages behind the tea shop. |
 Signs of recent erosion here also - recent high tides have seen massive sections of cliff lost along the stretch between Beach Road and Low Light. |
 There is a strata with groundwater seeping out, also note how water running off the fields here picks out softer areas of sandstone. |
 The bay formed to the south of Beach Road doesn't have much sand at the moment. |
 Here water running off the fields behind from the recent bad weather has cut a large section into the cliff. |
 Different textures of sandstone and clay put up varying amounts of defence to the sea. |
 Sand Martins nested here last summer, but the loss of several metres of cliff mean they will have to burrow holes for nests afresh this year. |
 At the start of the concrete sea wall at Low Light, just north of Cart Gap. The beach level here is such that in the last few weeks the steel piling in the centre of the picture was so exposed it fell over. |
 The end of the seawall is being outflanked with removal of material from behind. |