No storm in a tea-cup
Our beaches at Budleigh Salterton have taken another pounding over the winter. Tons of our red cliffs have slipped downwards as you can see from the photo I took on 14 February. It may have been St Valentine's Day, but clearly there's no love lost between the sea and our steadily retreating British coastline since I wrote about erosion near the South West Coast Path. The cracks that I worried about at http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/2010/01/coastly-affair.html have now gone! No doubt new ones will appear soon enough. But that's nothing compared with what our neighbours across the pond have to put up with. On Cape Cod they face the full force of the Atlantic. Budleigh's winter storms have been a quiet affair compared with the devastating effects on the beaches around our sister town of Brewster. In January I was admiring the work done by volunteers including AmeriCorps crew members led by Brewster's Natural Resources Department. http://budleighbrewsterunit...