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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 5:48:52 GMT
Attachment DeletedAttachment DeletedThis year went to our usual mobile home site which is right on the beach. But the large beach has been reduced to a strip of sand that disappears at high tide and only the sand dunes are available. All this was caused by the big storms they had. Since I have been at home and looking at Google earth it seems to me that the beaches all along the SOF have been considerably reduced. I wonder if anyone else has noticed this; has it happened to other med countries; how on earth can they get the beaches back now. I will post a before and after pic\s when I can do so without waking up the household.
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Post by tugboat on Aug 2, 2014 5:56:44 GMT
Why would posting pics wake people up? Does it involve JCBs and trucks of sand? In which case, you sir are a fraud. As a BTW, I have terrible wind this morning. Just thought you'd like to know. I might be able to put authentic ripples in yer doons, matey!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 6:24:10 GMT
Why would posting pics wake people up? Does it involve JCBs and trucks of sand? In which case, you sir are a fraud. As a BTW, I have terrible wind this morning. Just thought you'd like to know. I might be able to put authentic ripples in yer doons, matey! I admit to being a Fraudian Slip. Pix are up. Please feel free to put your authentic nipples in.
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Post by JP on Aug 2, 2014 7:57:44 GMT
Where is that beach? Early in the year the beach down at Pampelonne looked awful and some parts were very narrow but by May they seemed to be back to normal, I guess with the hop of a job or two?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 8:14:32 GMT
Where is that beach? Early in the year the beach down at Pampelonne looked awful and some parts were very narrow but by May they seemed to be back to normal, I guess with the hop of a job or two? Portiragnes \ Vias South of Beziers . When the tide is in there is no room for the normal amount of beach activity unless you can breathe under water. If they have more storms this\next year I can well imagine the dunes going as campsites have been raking and thus narrowing the dunes to make extra beach. It has also caused the sand bar that were there to be flattened out thus give waves free range to roll in and has made the water shallow for many meters out. Even the big yellow buoys that mark the no access for boats have been dragged in by the undercurrent lifting the concrete blocks below. Might have to have next years holiday at Clement Freud as that is where the sea will be.
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Post by JP on Aug 2, 2014 8:23:49 GMT
I didn't realise the tide was so changeable in the west, over in the east there is no noticeable high and low tide.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 8:28:59 GMT
I didn't realise the tide was so changeable in the west, over in the east there is no noticeable high and low tide. That is so but I assume because the sea bed has been flattened and made shallow, the sea has not a lot to arrest its advance therefore the tide mark twixt low and high is exaggerated from the hardly any difference scenario before. p.s. If course my take on it may actually be a load of bollocks. It is probably the sea using the same amount of water on a flatter and shallow sea bed.
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Post by stanner on Aug 2, 2014 9:50:45 GMT
The west has Atlantic tides which can be some of the highest in the world La Rance - Brittany, bay of Fundy - Canada, Severn Estuary - UK.
South only has Mediterranean tides which are lower than most bathrooms.
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Post by JP on Aug 2, 2014 10:11:33 GMT
But the beach Pusser is talking about is on the Med but the west side?
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Post by Miculo on Aug 2, 2014 10:46:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 13:17:26 GMT
I responded earlier but by Gad, slap my thighs, I've gorn and lorst it. Even worse, or Thank God depending on your views, I cannot remember the brilliant and precisely explained post\thread articulated to perfection without grammatical or spelling errors. Damn and blast.
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Post by Miculo on Aug 2, 2014 13:20:22 GMT
Quite.
What?
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Post by stanner on Aug 2, 2014 14:13:31 GMT
Had this argument before on fucts - what is south what is west? All the Med is "south" and just about all the Med I know has bugger all tides because of it's position, size and alignment on the earth. From....... easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EASYTIDE/EasyTide/Support/faq.aspxBut that site also reveals that similar places can have very different tidal ranges.
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Post by JP on Aug 2, 2014 15:12:12 GMT
It seems that if your British everything south of the Loire is "The South of France" but speak to a French person and The South of France is the coast of the Var and Cote d'Azure, basically east of Marseille. West of this is the south west and Atlantic Coast is the west.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 17:10:18 GMT
Had this argument before on fucts - what is south what is west? All the Med is "south" and just about all the Med I know has bugger all tides because of it's position, size and alignment on the earth. From....... easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EASYTIDE/EasyTide/Support/faq.aspxBut that site also reveals that similar places can have very different tidal ranges. Have you got a piece on where my beach has buggered off to.
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