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Anstey's
Beach Dune Regeneration Project
The Anstey's Beach
project was the first of
a number of projects undertaken by me over a period of a few years. In
this
project the entire dune seaward of the road over a length of about one
kilometer
was re-constructed in three phases extending the dune ever closer to
the sea,
eventually to it's original position at the high water mark. This
project has
been an outstanding success in that as well as re-creating the dune
system I
have achieved the goal of re-creating a functional and stable ecosystem
that
closely resembles the original in every respect.
Isipingo
Beach Dune Regeneration Project
The next three
photographs show the state
of the dunes at Ansteys Beach Durban before the project began
Photo of badly eroded coastal dunes looking down from
above Brighton Beach in Durban South Africa
This photograph was taken
after the
first stage of the dune vegetation rehabilitation at Ansteys beach
Durban had
been completed
The four photographs
below show the rapid
and total recovery of the coastal dune dune system at Ansteys beach
Durban
after the bad drought taken in March 2006 which is evidence of the
success of
the project
In the photo above taken
in 2007 one can clearly see the
three fences showing the three phases of reconstructing the dunes
between Ansteys and Brighton Beach back to their
original seaward position at the high water mark
Chrysanthamoides
monilifera and Ipomoea
pre-caprae with far lesser amounts of Carpobrotus dimidiatus are the
main
constituents of this natural dune system that had at the time that this
photograph was taken been established for about 15 years
In this photo taken in 2007 of coastal dune
rehabillitation at Ansteys Beach shows that the dune vegetation has
completley recovered after the severe drought in 2006
In
this photo taken in 2007 of coastal dune rehabillitation at Ansteys
Beach once again shows that the dune vegetation has completley
recovered after the
severe drought in 2006