A Morning at the Beach is Something Special ..... Embrace It!
Before going home, we returned again to the beach for morning photos. Upon walking on to the sand from the parking area, I took a photo of a lady sitting in this chair. Later, as we were leaving she rose also, so I asked if I might sit in the chair for a photo, the chair being an incongruous beach item...
"It's not *my* chair', she said. "It belongs to the beach."
That is so wild!! I wonder how long that chair will last at the beach! The only other thing close to this was a piano they had set up in the middle of Washington Square Park in NYC....anybody could stop and play it!!
talk about whimsy! classy beach you got there with that pretty chair. but my beef is that you cut off ken's other foot although he was so relaxed in his pose he probably didn't feel it. :-P well, it's not so bad in here as the snow finally gave up on us and settled in labrador! and it's only -15 with a windchill of doomsday so life is grand. now i go comment on the other pic.
Wonderful image of a man relaxing in a perfect location. Ken looks like he's enjoying it. He can see the spume (foam on the breaking waves). Luckily your beach has sand. This part of England was at the edge of the area covered by ice during the last ice age. The glaciers pushed small rounded pebbles or stones ahead of them. These are known as shingle. Essex has lots of it 'mined' dug up for building purposes. I don't know whether the shingle beaches are also the result of the ice age or of erosion by the sea! I'll find out and let you know by asking my sister @kelly2 who taught geography and geology.
Hi Louise, here's the reply I got from my sister.i hadn't realised that shingle beaches are rare globally as we have so many in the South of England.
Shingle beaches are the result of two main processes, though there are secondary processes depending on where they are. During the last ice age rocks were eroded by the moving ice and carried forward withthe ice. These rocks are quite angular as the only way rocks get smaller and rounded is to bash against each other and have bits chipped of until eventually they become smooth. This happens as they are moved by water.
At the end of the ice advance( we are still officially in an iceage but in an interglacial) when the ice started to retreat it dumped all its eroded material and therefore the rocks don't allways matchthe rocks/ geology of the local area.. If this material was deposited in an area that would eventually become a beach, due to changes in sealevel ETC. Thenthe next main process took over.it had to be a beach subjected to strong waves. As the waves rushed in they carried rocks/stones up the beach, knocking them together and rounding them. This inflow of waves is called the swash. The outflow is called the backwash and its less powerful as it has not got the waves energy. This carries the finer material back down the beach soo er time you have a gradation from largest at the top of the beach and smallest nearest the sea. These beaches are usually qyite steep
This is a basic and main outline but there are other processes going on which I won't go into.
There are only 3places in the world where these commonly occur, UK, Japan and New Zealand
@ceilidh Oh, Margaret, what fascinating information! I read it all to Ken as he tends to tease me that, while I have no interest in FB, he says 365 is also social media. I concede, but at moments like this, I think it rises far above and becomes a fascinating teaching moment! I'll be curious to learn more about some of NS's eastern beaches. I do know that there we have what are called "drummonds", large boulders pushed in advance of the glacier and deposited. Peggy's Cove, south of Halifax, is a community built atop *immense* boulders pushed there by glaciers. I'm going to check for more information about "Hirtles Beach" in Rose Bay, NS...it fits the description you gave about the shingles and the large rocks up high on the beach. Anita Campbell just challenged me to post three days of landscapes saying we could use older pictures. Now would be a good time, then, to find one of Hirtles you could share with your sister...and maybe Peggy's Cove as well! I had nothing but landscapes and vistas up until yesterday, but I'm back in the suburbs, so, yes, I will have to use past photos! I'm supposed to ask 3 others to join in the challenge and for them to contact 3 more... Nothing but a pyramid scheme, you understand, but I'll play along... You in? (Pretty shabby of me to ask a favour of you and to throw out a challenge... Let m know...♥)
@ceilidh I looked up my Hirtles Beach photos and found I hadn't spent time there since 2010! AND, when I selected my favourite photo to share with you, I noticed the beach was not all that rocky down by the water. AND...I discovered my favourite was also my favourite back in 2010 when I posted this one http://365project.org/Weezilou/365/2010-09-02. I have the feeling now that it's not at all like the beaches you wrote about!
I'll happily join in and ask some others to join (if they've not been asked already). When do we have to start posting them? If she agrees you'll have to have a look at my sister Irene's as she lives in Cornwall which is one of the loveliest counties. It was her garden I posted some snaps of in August.
Fantastic photo. What a serendipitous placement of a chair! And works so well for this photo. Great portrait. I love this. It looks like a Rolling Stone type interview shot.
February 7th, 2015
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Shingle beaches are the result of two main processes, though there are secondary processes depending on where they are. During the last ice age rocks were eroded by the moving ice and carried forward withthe ice. These rocks are quite angular as the only way rocks get smaller and rounded is to bash against each other and have bits chipped of until eventually they become smooth. This happens as they are moved by water.
At the end of the ice advance( we are still officially in an iceage but in an interglacial) when the ice started to retreat it dumped all its eroded material and therefore the rocks don't allways matchthe rocks/ geology of the local area.. If this material was deposited in an area that would eventually become a beach, due to changes in sealevel ETC. Thenthe next main process took over.it had to be a beach subjected to strong waves. As the waves rushed in they carried rocks/stones up the beach, knocking them together and rounding them. This inflow of waves is called the swash. The outflow is called the backwash and its less powerful as it has not got the waves energy. This carries the finer material back down the beach soo er time you have a gradation from largest at the top of the beach and smallest nearest the sea. These beaches are usually qyite steep
This is a basic and main outline but there are other processes going on which I won't go into.
There are only 3places in the world where these commonly occur, UK, Japan and New Zealand