Tide in, rocky.Tide out, sandy. Despite the rock-hopping it is very popular and regularly people come in their thousands, Southerndown, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, South Wales, on a hot Summer's day.
Commentary.
Only when the tide is out does this bay reveal wide expanses
of sandy beach for unimpeded foot-dipping and swimming.
As the tide encroaches, would be bathers have to tip-toe from stone to stone and boulder to boulder along a very rocky foreshore.
But come they do, in their thousands, on hot days like this.
The lure of refreshment and a cooling-off, outweighs the hazardous trek to the brine and back.
The tide has not receded enough to reveal the large expanse of sandy shoreline.
Like so many bays along this coastline the softer, clay-based
sedimentary strata have been relatively quickly eroded.
The headlands indicate more resistant dykes, often older and harder.
Good for viewpoints, landscape images and a healthy jaunt, that is well worth the climb.
Tide in, rocky.Tide out, sandy. Despite the rock-hopping it is very popular and regularly people come in their thousands, Southerndown, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, South Wales, on a hot Summer's day.
Commentary.
Only when the tide is out does this bay reveal wide expanses
of sandy beach for unimpeded foot-dipping and swimming.
As the tide encroaches, would be bathers have to tip-toe from stone to stone and boulder to boulder along a very rocky foreshore.
But come they do, in their thousands, on hot days like this.
The lure of refreshment and a cooling-off, outweighs the hazardous trek to the brine and back.
The tide has not receded enough to reveal the large expanse of sandy shoreline.
Like so many bays along this coastline the softer, clay-based
sedimentary strata have been relatively quickly eroded.
The headlands indicate more resistant dykes, often older and harder.
Good for viewpoints, landscape images and a healthy jaunt, that is well worth the climb.