The vanishing beach: the sea devours the coast

As many of you know, I’m on vacation in Tuscany, and this is the third year I’ve come to this same place, so I know it quite well by now.

Today, for the first time, it was a very cloudy day, with bad weather, so swimming was out of the question. I decided to go for a walk and headed toward a beach I had visited two years ago and I was shocked by how much it has changed!

The sea has basically eaten away, if not the entire beach, at least half of it, and it’s slowly advancing more and more, eroding the ground and the coastline.

But the most striking thing to see was the trees that had collapsed under the sea’s erosive force, something I had never seen in person before.

In the photos below, you can clearly see how the trees fall when the ground beneath them can no longer support them, and they end up right on the beach.

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Oh my gosh, the coastline has eroded. This means the sea level has changed, and the high tide swept the soil away. I never liked high tide when I was in the Philippines, there’s less beach to run around on, and the water is deep. But during low tide, you can see more of the shore, and I find lots of beautiful shells to pick and craft into something.

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The water on that side gets deep fast, like a couple of meters from the shore... I also prefer way better low tide

!PIZZA

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This is why water is one of the unstoppable force to exist, it can be quiet and peaceful or dangerous and life threatening depending on the occasion

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