Selsay Bill West Sussex

 

A very steep, narrow beach into deep water. The colours change from grey to green in twenty minutes, as the sun returned bringing warmth and brightness.

The beach is short and includes concrete and rusty metal, which hold their own charm. The swim was short, as the elements of the shore are very similar to other beaches along the coastline. The water was milky and the swell, quite powerful, providing a necessary opportunistic judgment for getting out of the water.

The attempts to humanise the shoreline, has had the effect of dictating where the sea can or can’t go, but the relentless buffeting make a permanent mark on the human intervention, and remind us that the sea is in charge.