This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.
Today’s photo depicts a calm day on a beach under the chalk cliffs on the northeastern shore of the North Sea at Flamborough, just north of Bridlington in East Yorkshire. Here, the sand is littered with chalk pebbles of various sizes, washed out of the cliff face by tides and storms. The land above the chalk layer is a mix of alluvial clay and soil built up over eons by the natural processes of plant growth and death. The sea is home to fish, saltwater plants of many types, crustaceans, and shellfish. Out of sight, on the far side of the headland, lies a Lifeboat Station and a small shop selling seasonal refreshments and souvenirs that help fund the RNLI, the volunteer force that runs the lifeboats. To the left of the picture, unseen, is a rough and steep set of steps leading to fields on the top of the cliffs, where skylarks rise and sing out their hearts under the spring sun. Travel further along that clifftop path and you reach a place called Dane’s Dyke, once an ancient settlement and now a wildlife sanctuary and popular walking spot for locals.
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Such a beautiful picture, Allan. That blue sky is such a fantastic contrast to the brown sand and chalk cliffs.
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I like the simplicity of this shot, Lynette. It sort of encapsulates what I’m about in regard to recording the natural world – especially when it completely lacks any human input.
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I’d give a million bucks to be there today, Stuart. It is cold and raining here with few signs of spring!
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Ah, Noelle, the world’s weather is topsy-turvy now and unlikely to improve for the foreseeable future, I guess. We’ve had the warmest February on record and one of the wettest ever. But it’s March and meteorological spring here now, so hopefully, we might get something more fitting for the season. This beach lies about 10 miles north of a place where I used to live on the clifftop in an old railway carriage as a child. I used to walk to the local school, about a mile and a half, along the beach. No shoes. I lived there from 5 to 7 years of age and loved every minute! I took my wife to see the place our home was located when we first got together. Driving down the road toward the sea, we were stopped by red and white wooden barriers across the road, which had collapsed into the sea due to erosion. My previous home was now at least two hundred yards out to sea and under water! But the happy memories remain.
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How sad – out to sea and underwater! But walking to school along a beach each day would be wonderful.
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