Save Ocean Beach

Was going through one of my favourite books today, St Clair - A Residents History by Barbara Newton.. just an amazing book outlining the settlement of the St Clair area, lots of old pics, history, culture, business, personalities. highly recommend getting a copy, I think they sell them at the St Clair four square Forbury Rd, well thats where I got this one last year. And its not a commissioned plug for the author, just a need to honour the source.. because I have scanned the pic above from it for my blog post today to show the massive difference in sand/sea/levels.. also the old sea wall.. just imagine getting a 4x4 with a trailer down that end of the beach now!!!

it happens on and off, the sand gets stripped away and then washed back in, but it's just fascinating all the same. Here are two shots taken 11 days apart.... looking towards the same set of steps.

Also below from this morning at 9am ish, the tide was real low and revealed the extent to which the sand has been washed out from the consistent high tides and wall bashing.

Full moon affecting the tides still, and very high at St Clair.
Sea wall 'foam fireworks' display again ...
I did take some sequences the other day of the seawall bashing, and tried to paste them together in animation shop on the old computer, but when uploaded to photobucket the last three frames came out with black spots through them.. just got some expert advice on my fopah with the animation, and thanks to my awesome sis, here it is...

Pretty easy to see how that set of steps got taken out.