Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on June 17, 2001 at 12:34:26 from 195.93.50.167:
In Reply to: Re: Secret Water posted by Mike Dennis on June 16, 2001 at 20:40:24:
The islands are very low lying. In almost all cases the sea wall is the highest point on any of them, but I think the farm steading on Horsey (Swallow) Island is on a higher patch. The land generally lies below mean high water Spring tides, but above mean low water Neaps, so it can be drained by gravity, timing the sluice openings.
There is a Government proposal that the remaining sea walls be abandoned and the land allowed to revert to saltings.
Fortunately, Kirby Creek is oyster layings and Skippers (Mastodon) Island is a nature reserve.
However I have counted well over a hundred yachts anchored off Stone Point at a weekend