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Saltings are areas of land that regularly get flooded at high tide. This area of them is viewed looking upstream towards Burnham-on-Crouch from Ringwood Point on Wallasea Island. Comparing the depiction of these on the Ordnance Survey map... (more)

Wallasea Island, a remote corner of coastal Essex, is the site of a DEFRA project to re-flood land that for centuries has been protected by sea walls. But global warming and higher tides mean that re-building the sea defences to protect... (more)

Looking across the saltmarsh towards the River Crouch.

London Clay from the Crossrail excavations is now being conveyed ashore on a virtually continuous basis from ships of the Hav fleet plying between Ringwood Point and Barking Riverside.

Heading east, with land given over to the sea on the left.

Now temporarily moth-balled, the pontoon jetty/dock at Ringwood Point has handled over 1500 shipments (3 million tonnes) of material excavated from below London during the course of the Crossrail Project. Transferred by conveyor belt to a... (more)

Former farmland, reprofiled and opened to the sea via breaches in the old sea wall.

Sign on sluice. Dredger in background

Autumnal colours

I assume this is TQ9794 : Polyommatus icarus? but I am no Lepidopterist

This remote corner of Essex has seen a change in policy by DEFRA in the battle against coastal flooding and erosion. The old wall would be too costly to repair so the sea has been allowed to reclaim the area for the first time in 400... (more)

Off into the distance