Three of us made the journey to Formby on 26th
September to clear a collapsed walkway to the beach, it was a beautiful sunny
day with blue skies and hardly a cloud in the sky.
When we arrived the walkway was completely impassable with the side walls collapsed and there was no easy way to clear this than to shovel out the sand by hand.
We had a small dumper truck that could be used to transport the sand from one place to another.
Formby had a few rangers and volunteers helping so we split into two groups and one group shovelled sand into wheelbarrows and dumped the sand back on the beach. The second smaller group shovelled sand into the dumper truck and this was tipped further up the sand dunes.
During the day we had the added excitement of TV crews
filming the final of a reality TV drama and got to see helicopters circling and
landing numerous times.
It was such a lovely day, it was hard back breaking work but
well worth it in the end. The rangers
will repair the side walls before the walkway can be re-opened to the public.
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