Hornsea Beach Photo

Sea defences (Groynes) on Hornsea's South Beach P7313532 ed

Hope you can enjoy the flat, miserable lighting. The Sun did start making an effort not long after I took this. Though we're still looking at photos taken on day one of my visit to Hornsea on the East Yorkshire coast, we're finally going down to the beach for a poke around. Yaaaay! This part of the East Coast suffers some of the most severe coastal erosion in the British Isles. The severe longshore drift created as the inhospitable North Sea sweeps down the coastline makes short shrift of the soft sedimentary glacial clay cliffs along this section, stretching from Bridlington to the North down to Spurn Point in the mouth of the Humber Estuary further South.

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