Coast to ghost
(The Guardian)
Achill Island beach that reappeared in 2017 disappears again
(The Irish Times)
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It came, it enchanted and now it’s gone again: the beach that reappeared on the Irish coast in 2017 after a 34-year absence, garnering worldwide attention, has vanished again.
Winter storms have swept away the sand at Dooagh, Achill Island, in County Mayo, leaving only rock and a reminder that what nature gives, it can take away.
“It was a series of storms,” Seamus Molloy, of Achill Tourism, said on Monday. “The beach took a really big battering during Storm Ali in September. Some huge rollers pounding off the coast, huge walls of water just falling down on the beach.”
Molloy had suspected the beach was slipping away. “The sand was in flux, you could see it. Since Christmas I was looking at it most days. It happened over the past month – just washed away.”
The beach at Dooagh, a 200-metre sliver wedged between beaches at Keel and Keem, first disappeared during winter storms in 1984.
A freak tide around Easter 2017 restored it, hundreds of tonnes of sand coating the rocks, bringing with it a surge of media interest – BBC, CNN, Fox News, Time, Shanghai Daily – and tourists, including busloads from China.
So that's what's under a beach, huh?
Son of a beach
leave it alone and in a few million years the stones will magically become sand
One of the few situations where doing jack shit can actually get you the results you want!*
*Although not necessarily in a timespan you want.
It'll be underwater before that!
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