February Storm

Waves crashing over the roadway at Shorthorn Point - high tide Wednesday 5th February 2014

High tide Wednesday 5th February-

Flooding at lower end of roadway and the back of Coliseum site - 'sand' is banked up at end of roadway

Flooding over lower end of roadway behind
the Coliseum site on the morning of 5th February

Waves overtop the defences in front of the Information hut
at high tide on the morning of 5th February 2014

And this is the result - damage to the viewing platform

After another storm the shuttering on the left of the hut appears
to have been buckled - fencing has been flattened and scattered.

On the morning of 5th February Shorthorn Beach is inundated.
Piles of rock armour removed from the tidal zone can be seen stored at the back of the beach. - at

Warning sign of storm damage

Plastic mesh, used in the building of temporary sea defences,
is exposed and ripped up across the beaches

What seems to be the same material was washed up
on Par Beach, east of Carlyon Bay

Plastic mesh and broken fencing litter
the Carlyon Bay beaches

CEG closed the beach at the end of the Public Right of Way -
they say for safety reasons because of debris

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