To remove a pebble from a beach?

[Pigeonpoodle]

I saw this on another thread… Apparently “everyone knows that’s wrong!” I’ve very occasionally taken the odd interesting pebble as a momento. AIBU to have done that… What on earth could be the problem with it? One pebble amongst billions!

Yes stones that are not wanted should not be taken to the beach

Your not looking properly then, I just typed in ‘can you take stones from your garden to the beach’ and plenty of information came up

no
you link it

No, if you can’t be bothered to find out information why should I spend time providing it

Seriously???!!! 🙄

At my local beach there is a sign saying not to take pebbles but I think it aimed at people taking sack loads for their garden (which I have seen people do). I do pick up the odd interesting looking one and sea glass when I find it.

See I love collecting up the odd bit of sea glass.

But I hate people who take huge amounts to make cards and stuff which are just going to end up in the bin.

Removing a bit of joy to people who like to find a pretty piece to cash in and end up in landfill.

Seen people post on Facebook collecting huge bags full. Then a few weeks later a sad post of a family who traveled and couldn’t find a single bit while bag lady sells her £30 necklace or £6 card.

Re seashells… there are regional/seasonal restrictions but foraging for seafood isn’t blanket illegal. afaik if you’re cockling you don’t have to ensure you’re not taking any empty shells…

Obviously, foraging will generally be done in areas of plenty - taking a few cockle shells from Morecambe bay is not really comparable to taking shells out of a small fragile ecosystem such a rock pool in which hermit crabs may need whelk or winkle shells.

I wonder if this is the same..
I have been up to the north East several times to collect sea glass from the beach.
Many people do this and use it to make jewelry etc .
Mine isn't to do any of this... my great great grandfather and his brothers worked at the bottle factory in the late 1800,s.
When bottles were broken they were taken out and dropped in the sea. Over the years these pieces of glass have smoothed and rounded.
This is a connection to my ancestors and in away..makes genealogy come alive
Does anyone think this is disturbing nature ?

What are you like?

And yet in the real world...........every winter Brighton and Hove council can be seen replenishing the pebbles on the beach that have gone missing in the area between the 2 piers - where on a nice day you'll find more than 50k visitors. Bulldozers can also be seen adjusting the low bank of pebbles halfway up the beach which presumably plays some part in reducing coastal erosion to which the beach is prone

Suspect that it is a more localised issue than your AI data suggests

Also it seems like every home in Brighton has it's own collection of interesting stones

Do they use the dredging ships or do you mean they get tipper Lorries in to actually tip rocks from the local diy place?

I know lots of beaches get the sand and rocks brought back inland from the sea naturally washing them out.

Why have the pebbles ‘gone missing’?

Could it be because of the massive power of the sea and tides? Or is it because of the Jenkins family who went for a sit down on the beach last August and took a pebble home with them?

In the real world.

i see dredgers this time of year, bringing the shingle up from the sea to the shore

But that’s just it. Everyone ISN’T doing it nor are they likely to start.

It literally is only in your imagination.

They're not replenishing lost pebbles. They are re-placing shingle that has been shifted by the sea and are moved back again as part of beach management. They do the same in Seaford.

I don't know why you'd comment when you don't actually know what you're talking about.

The time I saw it being done it there were big tipper trucks on the beach - I'd assumed they they had been brought in from elsewhere rather than dredged not least because the council do complain about the cost of re-plenishing the pebbles - but I might be wrong

As I said this part of the coast seems quite vulnerable to erosion as well as people taking pebbles home

Brighton used to have a sandy beach but all the sand disappeared overnight [along with properties on the beach] in the Great Storm of 1703 - imagine the shock of that!!

Interesting I might have to have a google. I’m watching in part horror the erosion in Hemsby.

How fast the land is going is something else. In Cromer last year seeing what would have been caravan static bases slid and broke down the Cliff edge.

I hardly ever go to the beach but taking a pebble from the beach seems more environmentally friendly than most bought ornaments.

Building companies seem to get a lot of them from beaches.

I've watched it being done and spoke with one of the guys doing it

As far as I know Seaford doesn't get more than 50 thousand visitors on a sunny day

In Scotland you can’t take stones from a neighbouring farm’s broken drystane wall to repair your farm’s walls -or maybe you need permission.(planning permission or similar)

I mean that makes sense.

I wouldn’t like my neighbour to remove part my wall to fix theirs even if mine was also broken 😅

I’m imagining… first, not everyone would, but given how many pebbles there are on any one beach, and given how they’re replenished by the sea constantly, then it wouldn’t cause any problem.

The idea that taking a single pebble occasionally from a beach is some kind of environmental vandalism is one of the most preposterous over-the-top bit of nonsense I’ve ever heard.

Don’t be so ridiculous. Presumably the OP isn’t talking about a T-Rex she found, but an ammonite fossil or something of which are billions. If they were valuable don’t think she would have been able to stumble across it on some beach?