Groyne replacing

They're repairing or replacing some of the groynes along the promenade at the Southborne end of Bournemouth Bay. Usually you only see a low wall of wood and the tops of the pillars, but exposed as they are it's amazing their true size and the scale of the undertaking in their construction. All to try and keep nature in check. Stupid monkeys. Nature always has her way in the end. Every few years Bournemouth council spend millions pumping sand from out in the bay up onto the beaches, the groynes are there to slow long shore drift and keep the sands in check. The fact that the same process is undertaken again and again surely should tell us something. No, like modern day Cnut's, we think we can stem the tides.  The thing is, if the promenade wasn't there, then the sandy cliffs would erode naturally and the beaches would be sandy, as they'd always been, without the need for human intervention.  We make our own problems. Still, interesting to see.