Millers beach under threat

Eish, the sand has gone seriously AWOL at Millers lately. Which is a REALLY bad sign as winter hasn't even started yet! Usually the summer onshores build up the sand, and then the winter storms sweep it away. The hiccup is, now we have bogger all sand left for winter to take.

I haven't seen the beach at Millers this rocky, and the dunes this damaged in the 12 years I've lived over the road. There's rocks popping outta the sand I've never laid my eye's on.

The dunes at the back of the beach have taken a pounding too, and are busy getting smaller with each passing winter. They used to extend far deeper onto the beach, whereas now they're getting smaller and are only starting further back towards the grassy area behind Millers. Not a good sign at all - cos once these guys are gone, that's it ...no more dunes. There's no feeder sand to build em back up. 

Yet another beach screwed up by the march of development. We're gonna seriously regret stuffing up the dune system in Summerstrand, cos one day soon we're just going to have big concrete walls all along our beaches.....

Might be an interesting winter.....

The base of the dunes used to start at least another 2m further forward a few years back