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Beach getting higher
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:15 pm
by Gary/Gaynor
Is it my imagination or is the beach getting higher
Gary
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:55 pm
by Lesley Jean
Gary/Gaynor wrote:Is it my imagination or is the beach getting higher
Gary
It must be all that volcanic ash that has blown in......
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:13 pm
by Michael Crane
Gary/Gaynor wrote:Is it my imagination or is the beach getting higher
Gary
No Gary, you're getting shorter.
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:26 pm
by EMM
Depends if you go at high tide or low tide.
Many beaches lost their sand during the winter storms so it has to go somewhere maybe it has come here for the summer.
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:44 pm
by Michael Crane
EMM wrote:....Many beaches lost their sand during the winter storms so it has to go somewhere ....
Last time it was all over the in and out roads!
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:31 pm
by cereza
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:14 pm
by Gary/Gaynor
OK its not the beer but....
You walk down the runway to the beach and now you only have to step down 2 steps to reach sand. It was more than that and there were 2 wooden benchs at the bottom where I used to sit and clean the sand off my feet they have gone (beneath the sand I think). So by my reckoning its a metre higher
Gary
Ergo the beach is higher
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:55 am
by blue
We've been to several different beach in the last few weeks & they all seem to have changed to some degree or other. The Praia Castelo between Gale & Sao Raphael is getting smaller every year.
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:08 pm
by Bruce Wallis
During the period between January and april, centiannes beach lost, regained and lost again over 4 metres sand!
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:34 am
by e-richard
Bruce Wallis wrote:During the period between January and april, centiannes beach lost, regained and lost again over 4 metres sand!
OK, slightly different dimensions, but similar pattern to my waistline as the incessant rain stopped me playing tennis during the same period.
Coincidence ?
Re: Beach getting higher
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:16 pm
by TomUK
When we were out and about up and down the Algarve a couple of weeks ago, many of the resorts we visited had bulldozers on the beach pushing sand up above the waterline, presumably because much had been eroded during the winter months.
Another feature in some of the smaller coves backed by cliffs (Benagil, Burgau, Salema, etc.) was lots of medium sized rocks which had been dislodged from the cliff walls by the heavy seas, lying about below the cliffs.