
I have seen people hit that break so many times, but never a cargo ship!
( , Thu 18 Aug 2011, 8:33, Reply)

And across at Climping. Although apparently that's a dogging hotspot, i subsequently discovered.
( , Thu 18 Aug 2011, 9:17, Reply)

West beach and Climping car park can be a bit dodgy at night although the police do patrol it a lot more now.
It's still a nice place and has had some money spent on it (new cafe/ better car parking etc) plus it can have some decent surf now and again!
( , Thu 18 Aug 2011, 9:28, Reply)

The cafe looks like a giant dog egg.
( , Thu 18 Aug 2011, 9:43, Reply)

Remember that big cargo ship that crashed off the coast of south Devon a few years back? People made off with all the BMW motorbikes... I wonder what happened to those?
My uncle took two giant crates of nappies for his kid and loaded them into his van. He's on kid number two now and he's roughly halfway through the 2nd crate.
( , Thu 18 Aug 2011, 10:05, Reply)

you've effectively just shopped your uncle on a public messageboard... he has, after all, committed an illegal act, no?
/dons self-righteous hat of indifference
( , Thu 18 Aug 2011, 10:46, Reply)

You're allowed to recover goods that are washed up on the seashore as long as you inform the official receiver of wrecks that you've rescued goods.
The owner can then recover the goods but has to pay you a salvage fee for saving his goods.
There's a fair few houses near where I live that were built with wood that washed overboard from a cargo ship years ago. (There's also one house that has a lintel made from one of the stones from a prehistoric stone circle.)
( , Thu 18 Aug 2011, 14:45, Reply)

There was also the incident of a ship loosing all of its timber. It ended up covering a good 15 miles or so of coast line. img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/timberPA2001_468x573.jpg
( , Thu 18 Aug 2011, 12:11, Reply)