My Personal Experience - My personal experience is about my holiday to Gran Canaria, which is one of the Canry Islands.
My Personal Experience My personal experience is about my holiday to Gran Canaria, which is one of the Canry Islands. I went on the 17th of June 2002, and returned on the 24th. I went with my mum and dad. I took one of my friends with me called Pat/ and my brother and three of his friends, Mark, Scott, and John also went with us. We travelled by aeroplane and the flight seemed really long. Everybody was asleep most of the way there but I was awake the whole way either watching TV, listening to music, or thinking about the holiday. I was so exited. We finally arrived at the airport in sunny Gran Canaria and waited for our luggage to come through. We were told by a holiday rep to get on a bus that would take us to the Barbados apartments where we were staying, but when we walked out the doors there were about twenty buses sitting there. We tried asking a bus driver what bus to get on but he didn't speak English. We went back into the airport where there were a few holiday reps and they showed us where to go. The bus journey lasted for about half an hour and then we arrived at the apartments. We unloaded our luggage and then headed towards the reception which was underground. We signed in and then myself, my mum, dad, and Pat took the lift up to the third floor while my brother and his friends took another lift up to the second floor on the other side of the apartments.
How does beach sediment vary along the coast between Lochranza and Catacol?
How does beach sediment vary along the coast between Lochranza and Catacol? Hypothesis For my investigation we studied a 550m stretch of beach between Lochranza and Catacol on the Isle of Arran, as shown on the OS map (page 2). On this beach it consisted of many granite and phylite pebbles. Phylite could have ended up here from erosion from the cliffs by abrasion. The granite however is not located in this area of the island and could only be transported by the River Eason, joining the River Charmadale and also the River Catacol. I think more likely though that the granite, which ended up on the beach we are studying, came from the River Catacol. When the granite is deposited at the river mouth they are all different sizes and we say that they are 'unsorted'. This granite could have been transported round to the location where we studied by Longshore Drift travelling from the Southwest and transporting sediment along the coast towards the Northeast sorting the granite as it moved. There is evidence that longshore drift is acting and travelling from the Southwest direction. (1) It could have produced the spit located in Lochranza Bay and (2) the most dominant prevailing winds travel from that direction. For my investigation I am going to use Longshore Drift to produce 2 hypotheses: > Granite pebbles will become smaller in size towards Lochranza. > Granite pebbles will
THE BEACH
THE BEACH The dark night sky started to fade away as the sun started to rise on the far horizon. People woke up and got ready to go to the beach for family enjoyment. The sun making slow progress moved overhead as people rushed to the beach for a warm cosy afternoon. Old couples wearing woolly clothes and seeing the life go by. One of these couples named Jack and Doris sat watching people playing football, making sandcastles and all sorts of other activities which took them into their own nostalgic memories of when they were kids and when they used to do all these exercises but now it's too hard for them to take part. Nearby some children trying to show-off their spectacular skills in football near the sea, kicking it round while some jumped in the water enjoying the big splashes. Bikini clad-girls flirted with any good-looking talent, who passed by, getting no positive response as boys pretended to look distracted. Nearby, some girls ran straight into the water only to find that it was freezing, which caused them to squeal and they rushed back out passing several families on the beach. Young children were being forced to put on sun-cream [which annoyed them a lot but they didn't have a choice] before they could go around doing different activities like donkey riding, playing football, jumping in the water, swimming, canoeing and attending the stalls for mini-games. People
Walton on the Naze
Walton on the Naze a) Describe and explain the natural processes operating on the Naze cliffs. All along the exposed side of the Naze cliffs, and to a smaller extent on the managed areas, erosion is constantly taking place. These are as such: Slumping The Naze cliffs are made up in layers. The base off the cliffs is a thick layer of very soft but impermeable London clay. Sitting on top of this are two permeable layers. The first is the Red Crag. This is made of reddish coloured sand and shells, which are the remains of an ancient seabed from 3 million years ago. The next thinner layer is of Glacial Materials, deposited from the last ice age. Slumping occurs when it has been raining heavily. The top two permeable layers become totally saturated with water and become very heavy. The water then seeps down and reaches the impermeable London clay. Now as it cannot seep through this layer it runs out of the cliff at the intersection between the layers. This causes mini streams and fountains to be seen on the cliff. This and the weight of the material on top causes it to slip off the clay onto the beach, where the loose material is quickly taken away by normal coastal deposition. Examples of this can be seen all along the unmanaged section of the Naze. Hydrostatic pressure (Hydraulic action) Waves breaking onto the face of cliffs can exert large amounts of pressure. This has a
