[NatureNS] Wagner's Beach - storm damage

Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:21:35 -0400
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I took my weekly walk to Wagner's Beach and, post Hurricane Noel, I 
was impressed by the reworking of the rocky "high energy" 
beach.   High energy, indeed.   The waves flattened and stretched the 
rocky beach, obliterating much of the adjacent hiking trail, and 
infilling half the barachois pond, now more a barachois puddle.  Huge 
rocks and massive logs and beams were tossed about, and there is a 
disturbing amount of human jetsam.

Those who know the site will have seen the "Flotsam and Jetsam" tree; 
though it sat well above the high tide mark, it was destroyed by the waves.

All in all, a most impressive display of the power of the sea.


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White's Lake, Nova Scotia,
B3T 1Z1, Canada

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