Skegness Magazine

Time after time we hear the cry “Skegness beach is dirty!”

So if it’s “dirty” how come Skegness ends up, year after year, flying Blue Flags and Seaside Award Flags?

These prestigious flags are awarded by Encams, the Environmental Charity who only award them to seaside resorts that can demonstrate they meet stringent standards in cleanliness and have sound environmental management. Throughout the season, Keep Britain Tidy carries our regular testing and if the quality drops below an acceptable level, they can revoke the Flag at any time.

The flags are STILL flying in Skegness – we snapped the picture, above, only a few days ago!

And it seems that Skegness winning the clean beach award is not exactly a flash in the pan – we’ve got pictures of the flags over the last few years to prove it! Below is a photograph, taken by Paul Gooch, of Skegness winning the clean beach award back in 2005.

“But it IS dirty!” – “…look at the picture below!”

What a lot of litter on the sand!

But let’s turn back the clock a few hours and take look at the Live Skegness Beach Webcam to see what it was like at 8.24am – a gorgeous beach in pristine condition, freshly combed by the district council ready to greet the day’s holidaymakers and residents alike. The captured Skegness Live Webcam frame below shows the “furrows” made by the beach comber.

Hmm! So maybe it’s not the BEACH that’s dirty after all, maybe its the PEOPLE who leave these this disgusting messes in the first place!

“Okay,okay, but the sea’s still all brown and dirty!”

Well of course it appears brown – it’s a sandy beach – and the sea on this part of the coast is too turbulant to ever let the sand settle to the bottom!

But “dirty” is isn’t – no effluence is pumped into it – otherwise Skegness wouldn’t have achieved award status in the first place, would it?