It is difficult to decide how to arrange the many photographs into the blog format; I therefore decided to first load some of them into my photo albums.
You may view the photographs taken on 17-04-2010 here.
http://picasaweb.google.com/omdiebos/BLACKROCKS17APRIL2010#
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Crystal lines
Here we can see the trapped shells between the coral. It is hard as rock.
How long does rock shells have to be buried under ground to turn to stone?
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Two days ago my husband discovered that black rocks were uncovered.
We decided to go this morning to take some photographs.
The sea eroded the sand from the beach, exposing a cluster of rocks that Was not visible to that extent for the last ten years;
Or perhaps the last hundred years, who knows?
Perhaps it has never been visible before?
It is a strange feeling walking on virgin soil. To walk on dry land that used to be under sea.
Perhaps it is the dune stabilization by our conservationists that is trapping the sand so that it no longer has its natural movement back into the sea.
Instead of returning to the sea it gets built up as sand banks.
The sand banks gets higher and the beach gets lower, changing the characteristic of the beaches.
Perhaps it is just part of a changing world and would have happened anyway.
It makes one realize how suddenly, without warning natural changes can occur.
I would have expected a lot of birds feeding from the rocks, but I saw only one little wagtail.
This is what it used to look like:
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