The beach was looking good first thing this morning having been recently raked by the tractor.
But not all of it. There’s still that always wet, not-so-nice patch just by the old toilet block. Why is it always wet there?
The beach looks empty but there were a few people on the sand this morning. I have had the beach to myself though many a time, typically on a windy and cold winter’s morning! Year-round though and depending on the skies, the view to Hilbre Island and Wales can be beautifully vibrant.
I totally agree about that horrid wet patch by the old toilets at the bottom of Trinity Road. I would also love to know why that is always wet. It is now horrid and smelly with green stuff on it. The problem I have is that my dog sits in any water on the beach and this one is particularly filthy, consequently I have to try and grab him before we reach it on our walk. Lol! Can’t some of the sand they rake up and take over the bank be dumped on this site? Or maybe bulldoze what has blown up the walls and cover this awful wet patch? Just a thought.
Wet patch – when I was a nipper we used to play on the beach and make use of the channels made by (hopefully rainwater) drains which ran from the promenade wall out onto the sand – just trickles really, but after a rainy day they would carve out shallow channels in the dryer sand, and dampen the area around for many metres. Might there be a covered drain under there somewhere? If it’s runoff from gardens etc., it might account for the algae growth (fertilizers in the water)?
The beach looks wonderful. In the fifties and sixties there was about twelve feet of slimey mud or worse that you had to walk through to get to the sandbank. That does’nt seem to be there any more. It all looks lovely and clean.
Looks can be at least a little deceiving… areas of the beach are still muddy but you can find (in my experience) that wind-blown sand sits on top of it.
I find it interesting that the beach ‘looked empty’ of all the victorian seaside towns ive visited in the UK Hoylake seems to have the most unused beach area. Ive always felt it a bit of an archillies heal for the town. Its a residential sea front but its a shame theres not alot down the to pull families and people.
Theres been a lot fo focus inr ecent years on market street which is of course good, maybe its time to shift emphisis.
West Kirby Lake is always busy and full of people and theres not a great deal more down there and it is just as residential.
And of course there new brighton ….
Hoylake beach has been much busier than in recent years in my opinion. Those looking for space have enjoyed Hoylake rather than West Kirby – where I lived for the first 21 years of my life. We have lived near to the beach in Hoylake for the past 43 years and now overlook the beach between Red Rocks and the end of the Promenade. We are constantly amazed by the amount of people enjoying that part of the beach. Dog walkers, Horse riders, Coastal walkers, Fishermen, Sand Yachts and unpopular Quad Bikes etc.
Please Wirral Council clean that part of the beach as well as spot spraying the grass with chemicals – that do not affect wildlife – which is being successfully done along the promenade.
Thank you.