Albufeira's beaches today |
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bob d
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Upper deck starting to take shape.
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we're not brazil we're norn iron
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A9NDY
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It's picking up pace now .... won't be long now until they are selling bottled water for €3.00 a bottle to the beach goers 🙈🙉🙊
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cubsur
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A look from beach level. The people working said the bad weather has set them back at bit.
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One biggish winter storm could well see it off for good
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Noah's Ark?
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I hate how peopleï compare Frank Zappa to God. I mean, he's cool and great and nice and everything, but he's no Zappa.
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The wooden piles are very deep, but one storm already has sent the sea right up underneath the structure to the base of the cliff.
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Andrew
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Praia de Gale cafe/restaurant is 20 feet up on a cliff or rock face, the sea still fetched that down in its entirety a few years back!
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Andrew
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Salgados lagoon is no longer a freshwater lagoon, it’s now a sea water inlet! It’s well and truly breached.
Terrible, loads of water lost, not good news for the wildlife there, just under the bridge there were a lot of fish jumping, I’m guessing they were freshwater fish agitated by the salt. |
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Andrew
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And still breached today but, further along the beach, massive amounts of work have been done to reinstate the beach, I dread to think of the manpower that’s been expended.
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Andrew
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Wow, this shows you how much sand has been replaced, my photo, in post above of 24th March reproduced here on top, versus today, circa 4 to 5 feet of sand has been replaced! And that's for the whole beach, probably millions of tonnes!
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Is the sand being pumped from offshore as at Albufeira or being trucked in?
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Andrew
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Good question Jock. There is no sign of any dredger type ships about and it is fine sand, not the coarser stuff the dredger pumped up last time, similarly no sign of massive haulage vehicles around and it would take hundreds if not thousands of them or at least deliveries.
There is though, JCB diggers in evidence, they were parked up yesterday but I can only think that, with the very high and low tides we’ve been having, they go to work at low tide and pinch the sand back! Could well be wrong but just my views or guesses. |
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Andrew
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This will show you how high up the tide has been, this is Gale if you don’t know it and the sea came in much higher than this, this is what was retained when the tide went out!
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When we were out a few weeks ago there was a digger working at Salgados beach, nearer their beach restaurant, moving sand up the beach to above the normal high tide point. Lots of tyre tracks in the sand suggested he'd been working at that end quite extensively. |
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Andrew
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Yes Col, but the tides have been so high, the sun beds at Salgados, top of the beach, have been underwater as have the boardwalk behind, three times in past week they’ve had to dig them out and clear the sun beds, what this level of ingress has done to the lagoon, that was, I dread to think.
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Andrew
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