Just strolled down to my local beach [}:)] only to find that the recent storms have pushed low water mark at beach 2 way out to about the point where our 'chic-on-a-stick' wind vein sits on the fishing groin.
That makes the rigging beach area off the end carpark over 50M wide.
Be great if it stays that way for summer.

But - on the downside if the changes do turn out to be permanent.
Some of all that sand build up has come from beach 3 at the offshore launch area. Here about 1/2M of sand has disappeared from between those once scattered rocks. No wonder we stubbed our toes & shredded our feet. Now there is almost wall-to-wall rocks; most of which must have been just below the old surface level.

Just looking at these pics again, how sweet was the offshore set up back then.
Even B2 would have been awesome....

Correct Phil, Wapet were trying to find oil but it was a failure.
The southern groyne was built by the navy and was going to be a major base, but they decided to move the location a little further to the south west.

Yep sure would have been.
But then pretty much everything was better in the 60's - cept there were no kites. (hard to even contemplate now hey)

Strongbow said...

Not a new phenomenon at all.
Some pics from around 1960's or so from memory, it's been a while since I researched this.
Thanks to the Navy and a oil company for our set up at Woods.

Astonishing photos - nice find Strongbow.

Maybe the woodies crew can get in there with a D9 and restore it to "it's original glory" under the guise of a historical project.