Wind Steals Local Beach!
It was Monday when I got back form HDC when April said “We need to go down to Sards the waves are apparently amazing!”, anyway so we go to drive down to Sards our local beach and as we turn out of our road, and look down the hill we can see the size if the waves from 3 miles away! Usually on a rough day the sea still looks flat, but Monday we could see the waves of epic proportions!
Anyway we arrive at the beach to find a good number of other people watching awestruck by the strength, ferocity and location of the waves. The combination of a high spring tide and 2 days of strong gales out at Sea, had brought the sea 200 yards further up the beach than before, and in such strength as they had collapsed the balcony of the life guard station( a brick building 100 yards from the usual tideline), up rooted the picnic tables next to the car park (even though they had been anchored in place with substantial concrete and steel foundations), and removed a substantial portion of the beaches Sand Dunes ( we estimate 40 meters deep by 10 meters high across a ½ mile stretch !).
This of course led to frenzied photo taking, and I do have a video of it. However I did get too close to the waves whilst on top of dunes, leading to me getting soaked by the large wave I was trying to photograph, and this scaring the life out of Iona who immediately wanted to be taken as far away from the sea as possible. Cries of “Noo noo noo noo noo!” continued till we took her to the car. Maybe children are actually brighter than adults. Oh yes the photo I got soaked for is just a wall of dirty brown water.
I pitched up back at the beach later to take some pics of the storm and sunset which I hope to get on the website soon. We will be back down to the beach soon to see how much is actually left!
