alteredcoast

Observations of coastal erosion and sea on East Anglian Coast

Altered Coast is a documentation through images and words of coastal erosion on the coast of East Anglia. Locations, sediment, weather systems, communities, tides and surges as actors in a constantly changing, increasingly fragile evolution. As restless and powerful as the sea itself.

Category: Havergate Island

  • Havergate Island is situated near the Suffolk village of Orford, at the meeting of the Ore and the Butley rivers.  The Ore divides in two around the two-mile long Havergate Island with flows splitting through what is known as the Gull on the north side of island and the Narrows on the south of island.…

  • The Alde-Ore Estuary, of which Hazelwood marshes is an intertidal component, is long and thin with two main sections. The upper estuary, the Alde refers to the area between Snape and Halfway Reach, an area south of Slaughden next to the radio station below Lantern Marshes. The area of the estuary from Halfway Reach to…