Avocetboy wrote:I have no idea why on earth people have a problem with this. I'm pretty sure a lot of the times its just kids playing, they see one, so they decide to build one (just as me and my lad did the other week in Glen Feshie). Pretty sure they get knocked over / washed away eventually What next? Lets have a pop at people who dare to remove small flat round stones and do a bit of skimming.
Its the scale of it, in certain areas its getting daft. The odd pile on its own, I don't have a problem with, and would be a hypocrite if I did, as I've built little ones on beaches in the past. Its also reached the stage where stones are being pulled from other areas, to build on the flat bits, and the land is being damaged by this. Personally, I'd rather see the natural landscape than 200 little piles of rocks.
I do think its marginally better than the "writing names with stones" thing I remember lots of around some of the nice beaches in the Far North West a few years back.
By the way, I was in Boston this morning, first time I've ever been as an adult. Nice little market town.