ABC Wednesday - G

G is for Groyne. Used to prevent longshore drift and coastal erosion. The wooden groynes are the cheapest but only last for 15-20 years. These are the remnants of the ones on my local bay where more robust measures involving big rocks have had to be put in place.


Some pristine ones below at Whitstable in Kent in the more benign south. Good for sheltering from the wind in the British summer while pretending it is warm.

Here the waves coming in.

I have always lived on the coast and love the sea in all its moods.

I think John Masefield must have felt the same:-

"I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and brown spume, and the sea-gulls crying."

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