This is for Kathy @randystreat who asked what effect the sea wall breach is going to have inland. You can just make out the breach as a tiny nick in the wall in the bottom photo.
This was taken close to high tide. It's a spring tide so high and a high pressure weather system is pushing the level of the water down.( Should be 4.8m high but it's been pushed down to 4.5m).
Salt water is flooding into the nature reserve where today there was a heron, cattle egret and a flash of kingfisher!)
I paddled across to the bottle dump, fossicked for a very short time as on the way back the water was nearly at the top of my wellies and strong enough to nearly knock me over!
@koalagardens it was fresh water, but will quickly become salt marsh, which it probably was decades ago before the defense wall was built @tinley23 I live on a hill and overlook a city which is mainly below sea level!!! @marlboromaam I read we will be the shortest lived species in the history of the planet!! @365anne is yours River ouse?? @casablanca I think the damage is now so deep probably too late.
@wakelys that's Him in middle photo and these are my new wellies!!! The amount of sea now in the reserve is amazing, soon the bottle dump won't be accessible ( found two more jars today!)
Wonderful collage! It is incredible that there is no money to repair that seaway. They were there since Roman times.... It will change a whole lot of nature if left unchecked. Sorry for ranting
Thanks for thinking of me Jackie. I guess I've usually seen saltwater marshes around the shore lines on the east coast of the US. The earth is always changing although it's usually more gradual than this.
Fabulolus collage! it does a terrific jhob of showing the damage. Who is the cutie in the photo on the left?! ;~} And no you don't look like the michelin man!
@tinley23 I live on a hill and overlook a city which is mainly below sea level!!!
@marlboromaam I read we will be the shortest lived species in the history of the planet!!
@365anne is yours River ouse??
@casablanca I think the damage is now so deep probably too late.
He says he's on the right not the left!! @grammyn
@wendyfrost it will move on and sea waders may move in
@dutchothotmailcom love my burgundy boots
@robz fear it will be
@haskar I was surprised at the force Hannah
@randystreat my pleasure
@jacqbb the locals are ranting more - guess what, blaming Covid for no money
@joansmor thank you