Working Title: The Yorkshire Coast Project.

Spurn Point | December 2024.

December on Spurn Point is bitterly cold. It catches the wind coming off the North Sea in a way that no other part of the Yorkshire Coast that I’ve ever been to does.

The ever shifting sand bar that marks the point where the mouth of the river Humber meets the North Sea is constantly under a barrage of tidal forces. There’s almost no rock formation at all to anchor the point, so it really is at the mercy of the tidal movements that move the sand from one place to another, with only the Sea Buckthorn and Marram Grass holding the central core of it together.

I took a walk to the end of the point, out past the lighthouse to the wartime defences and the coastguard station. It was a good way to blow out the cobwebs that had gathered over Christmas. I seem to think better when I’m walking so it was a good way to work out a plan for this project & how I’d like it to progress through the year. I came up with a solid plan that I managed to get down in my notebook while I had a coffee break in the tidal shelter, although I still need a name for the project. I suppose something will come to me, but do feel free to suggest something - the comments are open.

I met some fishermen too and had a chat to them. They were all from the same family and had got together to go fishing on the beach together. This was the first time the 3 generations of them had been fishing together.

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