It's not soap; it's sea foam!
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Frankie Jack
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Stirred up sea from Brighton by LimpDumb conference blown up here by the storms.
pogofish
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That's Fittie for you! 
This is one reason why the buildings have historically been built to shelter the squares from the sea and big mountains of foam is actually not that uncommon, although this is the worst I've seen.
It seems to be something to do with the funneling action on the waves from the curved back on itself sea wall which starts just out of shot on the houses side and the sheer back of the North Breakwater which is out of shot on the right. foam often builds in this corner and quite often overwhelms the wee beach and lane that runs along the back of the houses - which starts by the lamp post towards the right of the shot.
This is one reason why the buildings have historically been built to shelter the squares from the sea and big mountains of foam is actually not that uncommon, although this is the worst I've seen.
It seems to be something to do with the funneling action on the waves from the curved back on itself sea wall which starts just out of shot on the houses side and the sheer back of the North Breakwater which is out of shot on the right. foam often builds in this corner and quite often overwhelms the wee beach and lane that runs along the back of the houses - which starts by the lamp post towards the right of the shot.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
This is Spume - Which is an entirely natural phenomenon. nothing to do with detergents or pollution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_foam
The Fittie end of the beach is fairly shallow and sheltered by the back of a long breakwater, so it is prone to algal growth, which can contribute to the formation of spume. The main sewer outfall for aberdeen is also a good distance south of there and now well offsore, so sewage blowback is not what it was in the 1980s - when you could regularly find the lightgouse plastered top to bottom with shit, condoms and congealed bog roll after a heavy storm.
pogofish
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I should add that the only polution issues affecting that end of the beach in recent years have been toxicity from algal growth in high summer and radioactive discharge from a pipe owned by an oil service company on the old shipyard site nearby. They cleaned that-up a couple of years back.
fogbat
The Talibum
Divine bukkake.
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equationgirl
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Bukkake tsunami
pogofish
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I heard that the Torry Marine Lab was asked to give a sample the once over and reported they found nothing untoward, in fact it was cleaner than they would normally expect for Fittie - Just particular proteins and chemicals which they would associate with algal breakdown. Which makes sense as we did have our best weeks of the entire summer just before this storm hit. Good conditions for algae.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
The Spume was back at Johnshaven (not Aberdeen as it says!) yesterday, thanks to Storm Babet
And at Collieston:
I once almost bought the little house that used to sit next to the building at the front left of the picture. Until a winter storm trashed-it, just before I made an offer. No wonder it was going cheap!
And Lossie:
And at Collieston:
I once almost bought the little house that used to sit next to the building at the front left of the picture. Until a winter storm trashed-it, just before I made an offer. No wonder it was going cheap!
And Lossie:
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
TomAYto, tomAHto.
pogofish
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Twenty-odd miles TBH.
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
"Nuffink can go wrong wiv soap!"
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