WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS)

[wjw]

Hiking around for work in a beautiful area.

[Giles]

@ROman Not yet

[IH-GARY]

@Giles Not far from Whitby and the local East coast bays - some nice Fish & Chip options over that way!

Just remember, if you go for a walk on the moors - stick to the paths!!

[Giles]

Thank you @IH-GARY - off to Whitby and surrounds today .....

[Giles]

Went to McMillans of Malton for a drink last night. It is actually a booze shop that has the shop bit locked up at night, you walk through that and up the stairs and boom, there is a little bar....

Forgot to take a pic of the actual serving bar, but the last couple of phots are in it......

[ConBu]

What a German driver has to do before the weekend

[goosehd]

Start of day 2:

Another piece of heavy equipment (Articulated loader) and the heavy trucks to start bringing 2-3 ton stones in short order.

To answer why we’re doing this: In 2017 and 2019, Lake Ontario reached record high water levels with a lot of damage to shoreline properties. These pictures are from our neighbors yards:

June 2019

May 2017

[Matt]

Took you long enough.

[goosehd]

@Matt I could kiss you...

[Tobi]

@goosehd do you not have issues with frozen ground doing the excavation etc. now? I recall a little snow on your last pictures...

[goosehd]

@Tobi just a bit...

Thankfully it's all sand and they were able to get through the permafrost(technically I should use frost layer as we don't have a permafrost level in our area) fairly easily. A clay and this couldn't happen.

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14 degrees today

[Giles]

The Scarborough branch of Armani.....(yeah, not Giorgio)....

Robin Hood's Bay. Some serious anti-erosion measures. Take note @goosehd , yours are elementary level........

Whitby Abbey. Henry VIII did for it during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Then poor thing, the German Navy took pot-shots at it in WW I.

[goosehd]

@Giles That’s quite nice and am running to our local conservation authority to get a new permit…

[Giles]

I should have worked out how high it is, but I'm guessing 25 feet. Should be a breeze with the planning guys....And you could use this 1973 pic as proof of minimal impact to the environment.....

[Giles]

And definitely looks like quite a lot of the village would not be there, but for the wall...

[goosehd]

@Giles living on and around the water has made me realize how much power is in those waves. I love it and respect it…otherwise she will get the upper hand every time.

[Giles]

Oh, and found a pic of the bar we were at last night....

[goosehd]

I love those stools!!

[IH-GARY]

@Giles It’s estimated Runswick Bay has lost over 200 houses to erosion in the last 200 years. Just down the road at Robin Hoods Bay, the whole village slipped away in the 1600’s. Lots of engineering projects have been completed in recent decades along that stretch of East Coast to hopefully protect what’s left!