Comments on: Friday Photo: Grass On The Beach http://www.hoylakejunction.com/friday-photo-090911 Hoylake News, Views and much more! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: charlie http://www.hoylakejunction.com/friday-photo-090911#comment-9590 charlie Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:03:52 +0000 http://www.hoylakejunction.com/?p=1007#comment-9590 The spartina needs to be removed ASAP, What happens is, as the tide covers the patches of grass the sediment drops out and eventually the levels of the said area will rise, this combined with the grasses root sysem encourages it to spread at an alarming rate,thats exactly whats happened in the Deeestuary!!!!!!, Dont let these conservationists get the better of you ,or in no time at all you will be looking at miles of nice green grass and not the fantastic view you now have across the sand banks of the Hoyle!! BEWARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The spartina needs to be removed ASAP, What happens is, as the tide covers the patches of grass the sediment drops out and eventually the levels of the said area will rise, this combined with the grasses root sysem encourages it to spread at an alarming rate,thats exactly whats happened in the Deeestuary!!!!!!, Dont let these conservationists get the better of you ,or in no time at all you will be looking at miles of nice green grass and not the fantastic view you now have across the sand banks of the Hoyle!! BEWARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Geoff Garrett http://www.hoylakejunction.com/friday-photo-090911#comment-8480 Geoff Garrett Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:35:11 +0000 http://www.hoylakejunction.com/?p=1007#comment-8480 Did'nt King Canute try something like this way back in the Middle Ages? Give another fifty - hundred years or so and that big flash lifeboat station will be sitting up high and dry like a stranded whale upon a grassy meadow! Did’nt King Canute try something like this way back in the Middle Ages?

Give another fifty – hundred years or so and that big flash lifeboat station will be sitting up high and dry like a stranded whale upon a grassy meadow!

]]> By: Friday Photo: Chemical Spraying | Hoylake Junction http://www.hoylakejunction.com/friday-photo-090911#comment-5450 Friday Photo: Chemical Spraying | Hoylake Junction Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:36:52 +0000 http://www.hoylakejunction.com/?p=1007#comment-5450 [...] that is growing strongly down on Hoylake beach. If you don’t know what it is, here’s a photo of it taken last [...] [...] that is growing strongly down on Hoylake beach. If you don’t know what it is, here’s a photo of it taken last [...]

]]> By: judith irvine http://www.hoylakejunction.com/friday-photo-090911#comment-3343 judith irvine Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:08:27 +0000 http://www.hoylakejunction.com/?p=1007#comment-3343 The sailing club used to organise a yearly "Spartina" dig to prevent Hoylake turning into Parkgate, then i believe English Nature or some such organisation objected to this claiming it damaged wildlife, however more recently i thought the council had relented and allowed a dig to take place once more. The sailing club used to organise a yearly “Spartina” dig to prevent Hoylake turning into Parkgate, then i believe English Nature or some such organisation objected to this claiming it damaged wildlife, however more recently i thought the council had relented and allowed a dig to take place once more.

]]> By: Ian Davies http://www.hoylakejunction.com/friday-photo-090911#comment-3228 Ian Davies Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:18:49 +0000 http://www.hoylakejunction.com/?p=1007#comment-3228 The tractor that appears on the beach is a contractor to the council, they tow a Barber Surf Rake which is a device for picking up litter and seaweed effectively cleaning the beach and the operation normally takes place during the summer months only. The tractor that appears on the beach is a contractor to the council, they tow a Barber Surf Rake which is a device for picking up litter and seaweed effectively cleaning the beach and the operation normally takes place during the summer months only.

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