Egmont Point, the landscape below Houns Tout, has changed dramatically as a consequence of the long run of wet weather we've experienced. The land now slumps, folds and slips slowly towards the sea shore. Only yesterday, the slopes of Houns were covered in rough grass and bramble strewn scrub; now though, an alien landscape of fissures, clay slurry run offs and tracts of exposed geology, the roots of shrub trees, free of soil, dangle in the wind. All about Chapmans Pool the scene is the same. The rough track down to the boat sheds is swept away in places by mud slides, some sections vary in height by over a meter where slumps have appeared. All around the small bay the cliffs race for the shoreline across the inter-tidal. The sea is a milky grey as the land is absorbed and washed out to sea.
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