Thursday, 14 March 2013

Help!

This lifebuoy, once positioned at the rear of the coastal path, now finds itself in need of saving as the fossil rich sticky clay landslips at Barton envelop it in their attempt to return to their watery birthplace.  The engineered slope of the cliffs here once had its base a meter or so behind the lifebuoy, with the shoreline 10 meters beyond, now though the slides have reached the sea and are eroded away at each high tide. It's only now, several weeks after the initial slump, that you can tentatively walk over the clay slides as they've dried a touch, although extreme care is still required if you wish to avoid loosing a boot.

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