Walk along the beach, south from Walcott to Happisburgh. 26 August 2006
Compare with previous walks - 14 February 2004 8 June 2003
 Beach access at Walcott to the North of Happisburgh. |
 The end of the sea wall at Ostend, and the last access ramp to the Beach this side of Cart Gap. |
 Properties and cliff at Ostend surviving well. This is what the revetment should look like, and used to at Happisburgh. A nice amount of sand in front and behind. |
 Tanks traps - remnants from the wartime defences of the region. First sign of a difference from 2004 - more sand on the beach, and some properties built on top of the cliff |
 Only just a few hundreds yards along, and the first damaged section, more signs of increased beach level, but revetments still getting damaged. |
 In places hardly any structure remains. |
 Not the same section of clif as in 2004, but one of the few signs of recent falls |
 A 'cut' caused by a collapsed wartime emplacement is a precarious place to decend the cliff. The rise in beach level is very obvious in comparison to the 2004 picture. |
 It was almost impossible to locate the site of the 2004 picture because there's more beach. |
 The steel foundations at the foot of the revetments are still exposed, there's more beach, but see hoe much timber is missing! |
 Throughout, compared to 2004 the cliff seems not to have seen much action from the sea, but it is a different season. |
 Site of previous collapses now getting overgrown. |
 The groynes are still doing their job trying to catch the sand as it drifts down the shore. |
 At the northern end of the caravan park, where locals have attempted to replenish sections lost to the sea. |
 Another wartime relic. Again, higher beach and signs of a more timber gone. |
 And finally at Happisburgh, where even more of the revetments are missing. |
 New for 2006 - a shot I hope won't change much over the coming years! |
 The steps - notice how the beach level is almost identical to Feb 2004 - whereas further back it was several feet higher? |