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Wight Portal
Joined: 17 Sep 2009
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Location: Carisbrooke
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Ah, Mr. Long Knives you're just the chap.
Before my last post on this subject I went to investigate the wonderful changes the Council has been spending my money on.
New shelters with peeling paint, horrible square tubs with palm trees in them, just begging to become rubbish bins and ashtrays. But what really struck me was the colour of the sand. Now as far as I can remember, I don't go to the beach very often, the Island's sand is different depending on which beach you're on. For instance, Sandown and Shanklin has what I'd call builders sand, the West Wight's a heavier clay content and Ryde has always had fine nearly white and powdery sand when dry.
The sand I saw on my visit was more like the type that is used for kids sandpits, please don't tell me they've been replacing the sand for this tart up operation. |
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Ventnor Long Knives
Joined: 09 Oct 2009
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| Wight Portal wrote: | Ah, Mr. Long Knives you're just the chap.
Before my last post on this subject I went to investigate the wonderful changes the Council has been spending my money on.
New shelters with peeling paint, horrible square tubs with palm trees in them, just begging to become rubbish bins and ashtrays. But what really struck me was the colour of the sand. Now as far as I can remember, I don't go to the beach very often, the Island's sand is different depending on which beach you're on. For instance, Sandown and Shanklin has what I'd call builders sand, the West Wight's a heavier clay content and Ryde has always had fine nearly white and powdery sand when dry.
The sand I saw on my visit was more like the type that is used for kids sandpits, please don't tell me they've been replacing the sand for this tart up operation. |
Not too sure on that one but I wouldn't put it past them. I suspect the phenomena you are referring to could, in actual fact, be caused by the sand being discoloured by the large amount of sewage circulating in the Solent, a great deal of it originating from the Monkton Mead outlet at the Harbour beach following heavy rainfall.
The council also pointlessly rake it with a tractor every morning but I suspect this is done solely to inconvenience and endanger the council tax payers using of the beach. As they employ cowboy contractors on the minimum wage who don't seem particularly bright.
I often think that when they have finished this pointless episode, every morning throughout the summer season, that the beach looks ready to be block paved, it certainly doesn't look anything like a beach, and I wouldn't put it past the council to do so in order that they could turn the beach into a car park and charge us to use it.
Or perhaps they could consider reversing the situation and actually start paying people to park, for sure they could then successfully waste even more of our money. Which appears to be the object of everything they do. |
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