英73歲老人“愚公護崖” 搬運石塊重達200噸
According to the Daily Mail on February 8, the former mechanical engineer Michael Kennedy, 73, spent the past 14 years building his own sea wall at Hunstanton in Norfolk, UK, piling up rocks picked from the sandy beach to slow the erosion of chalk that time, he reckons to have toiled for nearly 9,000 hours and moved hundreds of thousands of stones weighing more than 200 tons in total.
據英國《每日郵報》2月8日報道，73歲的原機械工程師邁克爾•肯尼迪爲保護在英國諾福克郡亨斯坦頓小鎮附近的白色懸崖避免因海水侵蝕後退，14年以來，他一直從海灘撿拾石塊放置在懸崖下，堆建了一座海岸"保護牆"。這些年來，他一共花費了將近9000個小時，搬運了幾十萬快石塊，石塊累積重量達200多噸。
"It's a real labor of love because I come down here whatever the weather, in spring, summer, autumn and winter," said Kennedy, "It keeps me fit and I love it."
肯尼迪說：“我非常喜愛這一運動，春夏秋冬，風雨無阻。這讓我保持體重，我愛它”。
Kennedy moved to the area after retiring from the London Underground. Nicknamed Fred Flintstone by locals, he tries to move at least 40lb（about 18.14kg）of rocks from the beach to the foot of the cliffs in two-hour sessions which he finishes by 2pm six day a week.
肯尼迪退休後搬到亨斯坦頓，退休前是倫敦地鐵一名機械工程師。當地人暱稱他“弗萊德•福林斯特”，每週他會抽出六天，在下午兩點前花上兩個小時，從海灘拾撿搬運重達40磅（約18.14千克）的石頭到崖下。
He also picks up rubbish and prides himself on having created a spotless, stone-free sandy beach for holidaymakers to tanton is famous for its red-and-white striped cliffs. The lower layer of limestone, known as red chalk, was formed between 146million and 100million years ago. This supports a white chalk layer created between 100million and 65million years ago.
肯尼迪也會在沙灘拾撿垃圾，並以創造一個乾淨、無石頭的沙灘而自豪，讓遊客能夠盡情享受。亨斯坦頓有著名的紅白條紋懸崖。懸崖底部是石灰石層，呈赭紅色，形成於1億4千6百萬年和1億年之間，崖頂上層是灰白色的較薄岩層，形成於1億年和6千5百萬年之間。
Records show that the cliffs have retreated around 100ft (about 30 meters) in little over a century.
有數據顯示，在過去的100年裏，這片海崖已經後撤100英尺（大約30米）。
