The Geography Department
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The Geography Department |
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Happisburgh 12 March 2005
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The beach beneath the remaining cliff-top properties is littered with the debris, mainly concrete, of recent falls. |
Amongst this debris the frame from a revetment. |
A tortured skeleton of eroded and twisted steel piling lies some way off from the more recent, and half-hearted, rip rap defences. |
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Possibly the remnants of the well uncovered in the cliff face in my January pictures! |
It is almost impossible to walk on uncluttered beach sand any more. |
An incursion into the clay layer, etched out at high tide and undercutting the sands. |
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A live cliff all, albeit not a large one, happened about 10 seconds previously! |
A close-up of the fall, with sands obscuring a crinkled section of clay strata. |
The littered beach, looking south from the cliff fall. |
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The defences taking a battering, at low tide and with the wind from onshore, A freak wave doused me whilst taking the right hand picture! |
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As the cliffs retreat, the old launching ramp is separated from the seaward end of its construction .. which is still relatively intact. |
A close view of the launching ramp reveals utter destruction. |
Much of the site of the last cliff top dwelling (on the road adjacent to the car park) had been cleared .. with a JCB still in waiting. Erosion here has been severe and recent. |
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The roadway from the car park end has almost completely disappeared. |
The crenulated cliff top, with the car park toilets (closed!) and vehicles involved in the last evacuation. |
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Three views from the promontory in the garden on the last bungalow. |
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Looking southwards, towards Cart Gap, and the artificial reefs of Sea Palling, you can see a flurry of sea and surf, and the ever-deepening embayment ... marked on the right by the protruding clay levels; the sand having been swept away. The sheet-piling at the northern end of Cart Gap has been outflanked as the bay extends southwards. |
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Erosion of the field of rough grazing has been rapid, and the grass overhangs reveal the footpath ending abruptly some way forward of the latest incursions. |
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A cliff-fall below the field of rough grazing and, even more alarming (on the right) the newly-trodden ploughed field has already lost the line of its embryo footpath. |
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The final word! |
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