Canute Lives!

Well not exactly - but if he'd had £12.9 million to invest in coastal defences he may not have got his feet wet!  Still, it is a rather large sum of money, so we headed out for a quick look at how the coastal defence project at Borth was actually doing ....

Unfortunately we seem to have managed to miss all the dramatic scenes of 10 tonne rocks being moved around*, instead the diggers were cosied up to each other standing silent.

The beach does at least look a bit like a building site at the moment:

 - and in due course that £13 mill should deliver new rock groynes and breakwaters, an artificial multi-purpose reef (which will have the added benefit of turning Borth into a surfing destination of choice) and 'beach nourishment' (which apparently isn't as interesting as it sounds and just means they are going to add more sand and shingle!). 

Borth could well be a much more 'happening' place to be in years to come ....

* As seen below: 

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