What A Difference A Week Makes

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The photos above were taken last Sunday on my walk. The news had said that the southern swells and Spring high tides earlier in the week had caused major erosion of my local Merewether beach not seen in our area since a major storm in 1974. The 1974 storm was locally known as the Sygna storm after the Norwegian bulk carrier of the same name that ran aground on Stockton beach at the time. I was fascinated to see what everyone was talking about. Wow! I wasn’t expecting what I saw. It didn’t even occur to me that there were rocks under the sand. All the media reports about the erosion stated that history had proved that the sand would return by summer. The swells and the tides would put it all back again. No intervention needed.

While I had no evidence to go by I just trusted mother nature and didn’t think any more about it. Today on our lockdown walk as we had nothing else to do we thought we’d go back to Merewether and see what was happening. We were gob smacked. Merewether beach was back and beautiful. The photos below were taken this morning. They are from similar spots and of the same stretch of beach that was stripped bare last Sunday. We were also surprised to note that there seemed to be even more sand on the beach than before. It was also clean and yellow. Merewether beach had been Spring cleaned at no cost.

Thanks to Natalie for hosting #weekendcoffeeshare

7 thoughts on “What A Difference A Week Makes”

  3. Wow IM, I’ve spent a lot of time on the beaches of California and many of them just watching and thinking about how waves and sand and beaches all work. We even had a favorite beach nick-named “Driftglass” beach because somehow a lot of glass bottles ended up there, broken and scattered before the surf began turning each piece into the cool polished glass gems. By the time we arrived, finding a piece was considered to be a lucky thing so many were carried away by youth like us who couldn’t wait to show our parents. Anyway, I marveled at how your beach went from the first photos to the second. What a great story, except I still could not be sure how it all worked. It is however a wonder I was pleased to see in your essay.
    Thanks for sharing.
    Blessings.

  4. The rocky beach almost reminds me of a beach called La Jolla in San Diego. It’s a really pretty. I’m amazed how the sand suddenly appeared. It’s like a whole new beach!

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