Blakeney Point, a four-mile spit of shingle and sand in Norfolk, celebrates its centenary as Britain's first coastal nature reserve this month. But in an era of cataclysmic climate change, are such places just a parochial irrelevance?
On a curve of soft sand are the broad hieroglyphics made by seals hauling themselves above the tideline the previous night. As the sea slips away again, hundreds of these beige and brown bananas sunbathe on distant sandbanks, between ribbons of blue water.
See full Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/24/blakeney-point-coastal-nature-reserve-centenary.
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