- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Seas are rising, just sayin'View attachment 703858I told @Henarar that I would snare him a picture of outwintered dairy cows below sea level and remembered just as I had gone past most of them, and my rig was a few too many tons and axles to stop!
These fields are approx 18 inches below mean sea level, the floodbanks keep the water out and at low tide the locks open and let the land drains empty.
They are just open drains running into a main channel, just like a flood irrigation system but in reverse.
The massive 1878 storm completely changed this particular area, it was going to be THE main southern port but the Clutha river no longer goes out to sea here; it changed the course and the mouth of the river.
Now there is a lagoon that runs along the back of the beach and this smaller river goes at right angles for about 5 miles behind it.... the power of nature!
It would have been "Dunedin", where these cows are today.
Even 'The Octagon' is surveyed out, but was not to be, it is dairy farms instead...