Going to the Beach - East Head Spit

July 18th, 2008 by Kabby | Posted in Life, Pictures |

So I went to the beach today, West Wittering beach, to be precise.

In geography we’re going to do a project next term, on a hypothesis about West Wittering beach in general. We have to come up with our own hypothesis, something like “Is West Wittering a good tourist resort”, or “Is WW a stable and sustainable beach”. Something like that. Then we have to do a big project proving or disproving that hypothesis. It’s a bit heavy going really. We were looking at some projects people did last year, and they were like 50 pages long! Some of the pages were just like a big picture or some graphs, but it’s still a rather big project to be compelted by October.

But, today I did the better part of the project. Went to the beach with my Mum, and just took lots of pictures I’ll sort out later how I’m going to use them in my project, but it was fun to do them today- I guess it’s proving that I’ve finally broken up from school.

So, when we were driving there, it was nearly lunchtime so we went into Chichester first and had pasties from The West Cornwall Pasty Company And they were rather good

When we got to West Whittering it was rather windy, which made my hair go all over the place- that was rather annoying. But, it was quite warm for how windy it was, so that was ok. Some people were wearing huge jackets and thick jeans cause of the wind, I was just wearing a tee and surf shorts cause it was so warm. Mum brought
this frisbee thing for us to chuck around, but the wind kept blowing it waaay off course, so we gave up.

The actual bit of the coast that I’m studying in school at the moment is the East Head Spit, which comes off the West Wittering Beach. It’s like a big deposit of sand, trailing off the east of Wittering into a river mouth. It’s only connected to the beach by a tiny stretch of sand, and if it gets cut off it will get washed away- which is why we’re studying it to see how they’re defending it to keep it as an “Area of Natural Beauty”.

Me and my mum did a full circle of the Spit, so I could get pictures of all the different parts, and all the sea defences put up. It’s a really nice walk, but not many people were walking today as the weather was a bit too windy for most.

The sand on the spit was so soft! It was great. Most of the people only go on the Wittering Beach, because the currents round the Spit are too great to bathe in, I think it’s all flagged off by the coastguard. But they’re all missing out sorely- I walked round most of the spit in bare feet it was so soft.

It was really peaceful there, listening to the waves (they were pretty good ones cause of the wind), hearing the birds as they nest in the middle of the spit, it was really calm. And the lack of people there just added to the quiet atmosphere.

I took lots of pictures! I pretty much cleaned out my phone’s memory so I wouldn’t need to worry about running out of space. It was great fun, and was a good change from school work. I hope I can have lots more days like this as the holidays go on.
Here’s a few of my favourite shots I took:

Those are a few, but I took tons more. See all… 50 or something here at their original sizes.