Coastal Features
In Cape Schanck as we were walking down to the beach there was a lot of vegetation growing alongside of the boadwalk. A lot of New Zealand spinach was growing. The vegetation had been sculpted towards the sea as the strong winds have been pushing against them and they have curved into the shape they are now. On the beach there were many smooth pebbles on shore. The closest ones to the sea were larger as the swash wasn't strong enough to carry them. The smaller pebbles are further away from the sea as the swash was able to carry them. There were 2 headlands at Cape Schanck. One major one that extended from the edge of the coastline into the sea and there was another down on to beach. It wasn't as big and major like the first one we were able to see from the lookout point but it was still a headland. There was a stack just off the bay from where we were sitting and eating lunch. It was quite a big pice of rock that was formed by wave erosion.
Coastal Processes
The cliff sides have been eroding and large rocks have been falling and breaking off the sides. When the rock lands in the water attrition takes place and the attrition happens for millions of years. In Cape Schanck the pebbles have been rolling over each other and smoothening themselves out for about 350 million years. Whenever the backwash would take the pebbles you could hear them rolling against each other and smoothening out.
Unsatisfactory Human Impacts:
Some methods of protecting the environment have failed and just caused more destruction than before. Some fencing was put up to stop human movement on the sides of the cliffs but they got damaged and now with the broken fence it's tempting for teenagers to walk on them as I saw a few people step off the boadwalk to see what it's like to be on the cliff. There was also some litter on the ground from tourists not taking their rubbish with them and it is damaging our environment.