Located within the South Downs National Park,

Seven Sisters Country Park has seven chalk cliffs covered by a chalky grassland. It is the perfect place for walking, running, cycling, birdwatching and other such activities. Certain parts of the water are also perfectly suited to canoeing.

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We arrived at the beautiful coastal town of Eastbourne the night before.

We set out after work so even though it’s only a couple of hours drive from London, it was past sunset by the time we arrived. Our hotel was on the sea-side so there was just enough time to grab some shots of the beautiful pier just after sunset. The skies were an eery purple hue that gave everything a cold feel.

We called it a night after a nice walk around the town.

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We set out bright and early in the morning.

The idea was to walk across the entire park from the beginning of the cliffs all the way back to Eastbourne. It was going to take the entire day, and all our energy, so we called a taxi to take us to the visitors’ centre where the trek begins.

It's a scary thought that these buildings wont be there for very much longer. Soon enough, the cliffs will erode past their foundation and they will all come tumbling down to the beach, if they’re not removed first. They were not always this close to the cliff. Erosion of the cliff line has progressed over the decades to reach them.

You can go down to the beach and walk around. We spent the first few hours on the beach taking photos and observing the cliffs from that perspective. Among the stones are remnants of bricks - bricks that used to be houses and barns, fallen prey to the encroaching cliffs. Over the decades and centuries, the bricks have been eroded by the water into smooth stones.

The cliff walls are also very interesting. You can see the different layers of sediment and bits of stone sandwiched between what must represent centuries, if not milennia of sediment.

It's basically the end of England, and England is getting smaller!

So apart from the rising sea levels that is calming land from the British Isles, erosion is doing it’s bit in the south. The Island is shrinking! Everybody run!

We walked as far as we could on the beach beyond which we’d have to go into the water to carry on. Basically we ran out of beach. Most people would turn back way before that, but we were glad we didn’t. Just before the end of the beach, there is a fantastic spot for taking photographs where the chalk is as white as, well, chalk :)

Realising we’d expended quite a bit of our energy already, we decided to head back to the visitors centre. There is a cafe there where we regrouped over a cuppa, before heading out unto the grassland over the cliffs towards Eastbourne.

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This is the end of part one. I know how you lot are with your short attention spans :) I will link part two here when I write it for anyone interested.

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📷 You may also be interested to learn that all photos were taken with a Fujifilm X20 camera and no post processing or editing have been done to the photos. That’s how they came out of the camera.

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