Thank you John 🙏 Thanks for popping by, I’m pleased you enjoyed it. I’m on thin ground when it comes to “informative”, I think I must of been day dreaming whilst gazing out the window during my geography lessons all those years ago 😂 That was some gift box 📦 you unwrapped...Wow! Stay safe and well 👍
Fascinating info !!!! Great filming once again!! Love the fault line filmed from your drone!! Just shows how much the land moved !! Inspiring film 🎥!!! Have a great weekend 👍
Thank you 🙏 It’s an interesting place, very rich in fossils and the rock strata is fascinating. It strange to think in millions of years, not just tens of but hundreds of millions of years. Quite humbling really. This coast line is very fragile to erosion and is currently having some work done to it in the form of sea defences but in the scheme of things there temporary fixes when plate tectonics are at work. Stay safe and well 👍
Thank you Sir 🙏 I love but know very little about geology, I must have been skiving a lot that year 😂 but it does make me feel humble in the scheme of all things. Thank you for your kind comments they are very much appreciated 👍 Stay safe and well.
I lost my anchor in those rocks off blue Anchor. Great vid . Be interesting how much more of the cliff will fall into the sea over the next year. At least the council are building sea defences around the pub I hear.
Somebody will have had your Anchor. The sea defences around the pub are...kind of finished, if that’s all there going to do. Seen them yesterday and the new rock armour in my humble opinion isn’t enough, but what do I know??? There may be more works to take place. Thanks for watching 🙏
With all the rubbish going on in the world and here at home what a complete joy to watch something so calm and beautiful... I've never heard of this place but have now written everything down and hopefully will beable to take a long weekend may be soon.. Thank you..
It’s well worth a visit. I’d suggest at low tide as you can access the beach and view the cliffs. Thank you 🙏 for watching and commenting, it’s much appreciated 👍
Thank you for taking a peep, it’s much appreciated 🙏 It’s very visible at low tide along with all the geology hidden from view at high tide but easy to just stroll by without a thought. I find it fascinating that the planet goes about its business of constant change without break whilst we dwell on the uppermost crust. Stay safe and well 👍
No need to worry, it’s a very sleepy slow moving one, unless your standing under the cliffs where your likely to be clobbered by the odd falling rock. Mind you some of them are huge! We’re talking millions of years in terms of movement, not a sudden quake. Did you hear that deep earthquake under the Bristol Channel about 6 years ago. It was a huge...boom. Something like 60 miles deep under the channel. Thank you for watching 🙏 Stay safe and well 👍
Brilliant, Paul, both visually and aurally👍 While photos from 'ground' level are impressive, seeing the fault from above and seeing not only the face of the fault but the shore as well really highlights the difference between the land types and the direction of the slip. Well-done, sir! Be well, stay well, and keep it awesome - hello to Mole! - peace
Thank you 🙏 I’m pleased you enjoyed it and your comments are very much appreciated 👍 Me and Mole 🐾 often go for a long walk along the beach and beyond, he loves it and enjoys the soft sand. Stay safe and well.
Great video thank you! Just to underline your point about continual erosion, since this video was posted the Cleeve Hill road between Blue Anchor and Watchet has closed due to a landslide where it descends into Watchet, and is unlikely to be reopened!
OK so actually the drone wasn't filming Blue Anchor but Long Sands the beach and cliffs between Watchet and the Blue Anchor Inn. The junction between Jurassic and Triassic is beautifully shown. The major rift through here actually starts in Helwell Bay traverses Watchet, up onto Cleeve Hill and so on. It is a massive fault line and connects through to the Dorset Coast at Lyme Regis.
Thanks for the further information, very interesting and very much appreciated 🙏 My OS map didn’t have the name of the stretch of beach on. I parked the truck in Blue Anchor, does that count 😉 Thanks again 👍
Well, almost right. It is all related. I think you are talking about older faults deeper down that created the Bristol channel. But the main faults coming from the Dorset coast are younger and go straight into the Bristol channel, one of them immediately west of Watchet harbour. The Helwell Bay fault is pushed up by these younger movements, the Blue Anchor fault and the Kilve faults are pushed down.
I am looking for the dimension scale of this fault. Appreciate if any of you able to share the paper or publication link about Blue Anchor Fault. Thanks
