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MM Links March 2009 [Week 3]
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Good Morning, this is Mr E back again with this week's Blog entry:
This week the weather has been really very good and so yesterday, I agreed to join some friends (Fred and Roy) from the Falmer, Lewes And Peacehaven Strollers. We set out to walk along the coastal path above the cliffs from Seaford to Eastbourne. The route starts with a steady climb up to Seaford Head. Here, the cliffs are all chalk and the edges can be very crumbly so you have to stand well back from the edge as you peer out across the Channel (or 'La Manche' as our neighbours call it) where busy lanes of shipping are constantly passing. It is about 60 miles wide here so not much chance of seeing France, even on the clearest of days.
Later, as the path drops down to the mouth of the River Cuckmere, just before you pass some picturesque holiday cottages, there are fine views of the 'Seven Sisters'. This is one of the most photographed sections of these chalk cliffs. As we approached the river mouth, we descended onto a beach of large pebbles. Fred fancied himself as an amateur geologist and explained that these were flints which had formed from accretions of silica within the chalk and often formed in definite layers or beds which could be seen crossing the cliffs.
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This week the weather has been really very good and so yesterday, I agreed to join some friends (Fred and Roy) from the Falmer, Lewes And Peacehaven Strollers. We set out to walk along the coastal path above the cliffs from Seaford to Eastbourne. The route starts with a steady climb up to Seaford Head. Here, the cliffs are all chalk and the edges can be very crumbly so you have to stand well back from the edge as you peer out across the Channel (or 'La Manche' as our neighbours call it) where busy lanes of shipping are constantly passing. It is about 60 miles wide here so not much chance of seeing France, even on the clearest of days.
Later, as the path drops down to the mouth of the River Cuckmere, just before you pass some picturesque holiday cottages, there are fine views of the 'Seven Sisters'. This is one of the most photographed sections of these chalk cliffs. As we approached the river mouth, we descended onto a beach of large pebbles. Fred fancied himself as an amateur geologist and explained that these were flints which had formed from accretions of silica within the chalk and often formed in definite layers or beds which could be seen crossing the cliffs.
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