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| FL - very noisy & major beach impact over weeks |
In my 12 August 2014 blog, I described local Florida beach re-nourishment: disruptive pumping of sand from the Gulf seabed onto the beach, replacing beach sand naturally eroded away by the tides & storms. Here the operation takes place at night.
This beach needed re-nourished again in 2018.
This beach needed re-nourished again in 2018.
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| UK - just a quick day job |
Well, here in the northern Straits of Dover we have TOO MUCH SAND, and thus sand is removed 2x per year - humans are never satisfied!!
I contrasted these two beaches in my 4 November 2016 blog.
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| seen on the open sea . . . |
This jack-up was later seen out at the wind turbines off the coast on a very windy day.
We went to play a spot of bowls, but ended up on the Golf Croquet lawn instead.
And spotted this perfect example of the British approach to weather - shorts, winter 'duvet' coat and sleeveless - all at below 60F or 15C and in the wind. The the weather has turned to what I can best describe as 'murky,'
No red tide here, rather another algae form called sea sparkle (orangish and glows at night, although I have yet to see this glow).
Something, sea sparkle or not, leaves these traces on the beach.
On the left some inspiration for my Quirky friends, and right for my US friends this is English garden/salad cress often used in [boiled egg] sandwiches - something like curly/upland cress in the USA.
Apparently now UK salad cress has rape seed in it.
Just a spot of fun this month to make a wrist wallet out of some old scraps of fabric.
On another note: went to the local archaeological society talk one recent evening and the speaker started with artifacts found 800,000 years ago (no that is not a typo!) and followed up with a gorgeous whole medieval pot found in the sands of a nearby beach and another underwater at mouth or a local river!
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| Kent County Council Finds Officer |
So two coasts divided in time/history, but both with luxury cruise ships spotted from our window. Here's the Silversea Silver Whisper sailing past on the 20th from London to France.
She glided past the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm (100 turbines commissioned Sept 2010) which was wearing a slightly pinky hat of clouds - first time I have seen it quite like this! The Thames estuary has been very busy with shipping tankers & cargo barges too - all requiring pilots to guide them upriver; pilot boats are a frequent sighting.
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| see the turbines' hat of clouds? |
And another hat-- on a man dressed in a black frock-type coat, ambling along the seafront with his companion draped in a European flag and cap - sorry no picture and no explanation for them or British politics (nor US for that matter)!
Then today the Margate Meltdown roared into our neighbouring town with the 1960's Mods (without the Rockers) having a ride on their scooters around the coast.
