Post-tropical depression Noel hits Crescent Beach Photo Gallery by Gordon Prince at pbase.com

Post-tropical depression Noel hits Crescent Beach

Post-tropical depression Noel hits Crescent Beach, Lunenburg Co, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The storm hit on the night of Nov 3/4, 2007. The photos were taken Monday, Nov 5 walking from the Highway 331 (west) end of the beach towards Bush Island (east).
For further information see www.crescentbeach.ca

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Tom Daly		11-Nov-2007 23:54
Thanks for this Gordon- here's the text of an email I sent to the FOCB Board: Last week's storm has had me thinking, and I thought I'd pose the following to you: has FOCB asssembled any kind of a history of what we humans call Crescent Beach from the point of view of the 'natural system' of the tombolo structure? I have seen: - the 1604 Champlain map, showing an intact structure - an early 1700's French naval chart showing the channel washed through (at roughly the same place as it washed out in the early '1950's) including notation as to the size of ship capable of sailing through the channel (I saw this map at the LaHave Bakery, however their copy apparently came from the Fort Point Museum) - an early 1800's 'Mariners' Guide' that noted the area as "a hazard to navigation- a sandbar which is not exposed at low tide" (in the collection of Chris Beckett- Anne Greer may know Chris- if not, Peggy does) - stories from various 'local' people of my age of stories they heard from their grandparents of being able to sail fishing boats through the channel at the outer end of the beach, which eventually closed My understanding is that the tombolo by its very nature is constantly building up to a point of instability, collapsing, and then rebuilding in an unstoppable and totally natural cycle. It reached its point of collapse in the early 1950's, and human intervention (dead car fill in the washed-out channel, armour rock, wind fences etc) has served merely to forestall the inevitability of that natural cycle: what we know today as "beach" "road" "power lines" will for the most part disappear in the next Noel/Juan event- and if not in the next, at least in the very near future. Perhaps a discussion with Bob Taylor at BIO could be opened to document this history such that any future decisions are based on fact and reasonable likelihood? It seems to me that the Friends needs to take a much stronger stance on "Crescent Beach" as a 100-century-old dynamic, constantly evolving system with a life-cycle measured in centuries, and place much less emphasis on the misconception that it is a static entity that can be "protected", "built up" reinforced" and otherwise "maintained" to suit a human time-sense measured in decades. I would think that NSPC removing the power lines currently across the beach, and supplying power through underwater cable via Dublin Shore > Bushen Bushen > Covey Island (ie feed from the other end) would be best accomplished prior to / in preparation for the inevitable collapse of the tombolo structure. Likewise with the Highways Dept: the 'free ride' they've had on the back(side) of the tombolo for the past six or eight decades is about to come to an end: what preparations are they making for island access prior to / in preparation for the inevitable collapse of the tombolo structure? This is an opportunity for the FOCB Board to take a proactive future-sensitive leadership role in recognition and support of the natural systems in and on which we live, and to influence human response which also recognizes and supports the natural systems in and on which we live. I am very afraid that the myopia of the political cycle (at this point, measured in months) will see nothing but an opportunity to be seen as having accomplished something which in the end will turn out to be nothing but tonnes of rock poured into a literally bottomless pit.

Guest		07-Nov-2007 02:33
Thanks for the pics Gordon -Molly Zeppa

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