I must be a frustrated potential boss of McAlpines or something, I am fasinated by civil engineering projects and spend hours looking at them and trying to figure out what is going on. So, a computer generated picture of what its all going to be like----thats like showing a kid the Xmas parcels the day before. Anyway, I'm going to bore you now, so change threads.
A few messages back I replied to Dave that there were hundreds/thousands of tons of rocks scattered around the beach in random piles. After watching this evening what was going on, perhaps they WERE random. There has'ent been much activity on the beach during the summer, but its all sprung to life now. Working near enough into darkness. Rocks being picked up, put on dump trucks and moved back up onto where the prom once was and dropped.
I can only guess 1/ They were placed on the beach as a storage area because it would be difficult if they were delivered at this stage of development or 2/ perhaps they were 10p a ton cheaper buying in a job lot in March 3/ miscalculation as to how many tons were needed at the early stages. Of course, now many of them are covered in green from the tides---I dont suppose for a minute this matters but it looks as if the rocks on the top of the pile are unmarked.
And, to me if noone else, this is a mystery. A 360 degree digger of which there are several and years ago came in at a price with operator of £100 an hour. Digging what looked to me from a distance as a wide trench on the beach. Taking at least an hour. Well below high tide mark. Its 9.30 now. If you get down there quick you will see it. Another hour and it will be under the waves. Wont be much of it left tomorrow even with a calm sea. The last thing the digger operator did was lower a large "metal" ? object probably 10 foot square into the end of the trench. 5 mins later pulled it out and carried it off. Come on Yorkie, if you are the only one reading this, whats that about? Taking samples? Easier to go and ask them, I suppose---but then again I am only an idle spectator glued to the windows that they often put in at projects in city centres