Seaford Head

[poliphilo]

See that vertical, black line going down the cliff face? That's where the next section is going to break away. It could happen any time.

This is Seaford Head. We'd love to live nearby. There was a house for sale just off the esplanade- a little square box in a terrace of little square boxes- but which one was it- the end house or the one that looked empty or the one with the driftwood fences? The lady who emerged to confront me said it was the one with the open door but the young man who came out of the open door said he and his girlfriend were house-sitting it for the owner and it wasn't for sale at all. I think they may both have been trying to mislead me. With my flat cap, dark glasses and long straggly grey hair they probably took me for a burglar.

Comments

[basefinder]

Either that or they were doing the place and you surprised them in the act!

[poliphilo]

Hah, I hadn't thought of that!

[basefinder]

I did, possibly because I think I interrupted something shady once. I retreated quickly, whilst trying to act casual. I was very relieved to be back in my car on the highway.

[cmcmck]

Stunning pic!

[poliphilo]

Thanks.

[oakmouse]

Gorgeous pic. That crack was the first thing I spotted, though, and it made me hope that nobody goes and stands on the edge of that part of the cliff!

[poliphilo]

The media regularly runs stories about people who go and pose for photos on the edge of the chalk cliffs and how foolish they are. Every once in a while the ground gives way or one of them will lose their balance.

[oakmouse]

Kind of like the people who pose at the edge of the Grand Canyon, or Devil's Butte, or some other very high or very deep place, and fall off to their deaths while taking selfies. That particular kind of folly seems to be human-generic.