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Felixstowe -
Landguard Common, sea front & Cobbold's Point 14
Jul 2009
Felixstowe Ferry
10 Feb 2002
Felixstowe
Ferry July 2006
Felixstowe
Ferry February 2007
Felixstowe Front and
Ferry November 2007 and 25
March 2008
Felixstowe Ferry 4 July 2008
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Felixstowe Front 19/20 September 2008
Felixstowe Front 10 Feb 2002
Felixstowe- Landguard
Point
Felixstowe - Landguard Common, Seafront &
Cobbolds Point July 14 2009
Felixstowe sailings
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The visitor's car
park at Landguard Point was quiet early on Tuesday
morning, as were the shipping lanes. I spotted an area of docks
development in the centre of the centre shot. |
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The ferry to
Holland emerged from Harwich and stole upon n the tug along the
deep-water channel. |
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A truly ugly
vessel! |
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In the Haven
waterway a jack-up rig with an excavator on board was dredging
the floor of the channel. |
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Container-handling
gantries at Landguard, together with an awful lot of unused
space, indicating business at the terminal is well down on
previous visits .. see below. |
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More of the
containers and cranes ... and a container ship passing by in the
right-hand shot! |
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The container ship
waited offshore for the ferry to leave, before passing by
Landguard Point entering the port. |
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A view of the
container terminal is offered by the old fort earthworks on
Landguard Common. |
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Landguard Common
and Landguard Point from the earthworks. |
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More of Landguard Common
from the earthworks. |
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The new rock groynes
stretch away to the north and the Town Beach and provide a much-changed
vista. |
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The rock armour divides the
beach into sections and has certainly been necessary from a protection
point of view. As a tourist amenity the abundance of such large
quantities of rock might be another matter. Beach nourishment however,
centre, is a decidedly temporary advantage and has been rapidly removed
from the foreshore - centre photo. |
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The groynes front a new or
refurbished section of sea wall; the shingle promontory of Landguard
Common to the rear. |
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The beach has been
made accessible to the promenade again by beach nourishment. Not
the information plate on each structure; collect them all and
plot them on a map! |
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At a very low tide level
most of the groyne is visible, including the fish-tail seaward end of
the rock wall. |
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The overall slope of the
beach is quite steep and the fall of over 5 metres is impressive. Only
timer will tell how much shingle and, more importantly, sand, will stay
on this beach. |
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Just to the
north-east of the pier the old concrete groynes remain, centre
and left, whilst further along this coast some additional
rip-rap has been added to the defences ... just as Cobbold's
Point is approached. |
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Looking towards Cobbold's
Point and its array of tetrapods, left and back to the south-west and
the undercliff zone. |
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Cobbold's Point can only
really impress at low water as the tetrapods are submerged at most
states of tide. If you walk through this forest of concrete and green
slime, a charming little bay is the reward. |
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A stroll across broken
concrete defences brings up another promontory. Progress at even this
low a tide was stopped by a disappearing beach beyond the promontory,
with yet more tetrapods on show. |
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Looking back to the south
west and over Cobbold's Point, left, and to the north-east and
Felixstowe Common and Bawdsey Manor, right. |
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Felixstowe Landguard Common
Cobbolds Point coasts defences hard
erosion change beaches groynes sand defences tetrapods management
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