Entry 4: Goodbye Hayley, hello Sepen!

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Entry posted by 89James89 · February 2, 2015

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Mymyjp: Thanks I'm glad your enjoying watching me try and resolve problems as they arise. As you said a lot of things are plop and show which look great but I prefer looking into a growing region and its issues.

indecisive_compulsive: Thanks and I'm really glad your enjoying the farms. I too love watching cities grow surrounded by farmland (probably due tot he fact that I live in the country without a huge city by me).

ffstg24: Thanks, I'm glad you like the small town look. Hopefully they'll grow soon enough but don't worry there's plenty more room int he region for more small towns.

JP Schriefer: Glad your enjoying it and the traffic issues are probably due to having no roads int he region and mostly only single routes into places lol.

Entry 4: Goodbye Hayley, Hello Sepen.

Right well today, with the problems from the last entry behind us we can safely move on to continuing to spread our small community out.

First things first though here's Hayley all farmed and ready to go. Unfortunately the area is pretty large so I had to do it in two pictures (useless helicopter couldn't fly any higher.) but it should still give you an idea of how the area looks.

Firstly we can see the the East side of Hayley (facing South) showing the towns of Pendrington, Hayley's Descent, Wellbourne, Tipton and Kilinton respectively (from top to bottom) surrounded by lovely open farmland (apart from Tipton which has a dump outside it).

Moving to the West (again facing South) you can see the towns of Hayley, Hayley's Ascent, Tineaton (pronounced Tiny-ton and the smallest settlement in the region that we've actually bothered naming so far), Adbury and Shore Regis with the two halfs of the area divided by Hayley's Ridge. Also Adbury woods can be seem to the North-East of Adbury, another attempt to please the hipp..... I mean environmentalist's.

Anyway with Hayley done and dusted we can move onto arguably the most pleasant place to live in the whole region so far, Sepen Head. Immediately west of Garton Bay (so south of Hayley), here's what it used to look like when it was even more pleasant.

As you can see the area has several interesting features. Namely the 'head' of land that gives the area its name, the spit of land that helps to create the Garton Bay area and the sandbar formed behind the rocks just off the head.

Anyway it didn't take long for us to capitalise on the nice surroundings situated in the area, with what could probably just about pass as a resort town springing up.

Now as you can see, despite the emphasise being on a relaxing place for the residents of the Garton region to visit we still didn't skimp on wasting space that could be used for farming so that's still relevant here but unlike most of the region so far this place has usable and nice beaches and a lean towards commercial ventures over industrial (though again there is a small industrial estate as the town is fairly large and needed the jobs).

Probably easier for me to show this in a closer photo rather than try and explain it with words so here's the photo of the main town of Sepen and its sand bar and headland. As you can see the commercial areas can be seen in the centre of town and down by the beach. Also of note is Mayor Poppins holiday house (the one thats surrounded by trees on the hill behind the town) and the park behind it with its lookout tower allowing you to see the surroundings area pretty well. The small bay at the bottom of the photo and the shallows between the mainland and the sandbar also make lovely places to take little ones for swims as the waters are fairly shallow here. Just please be careful of the rather obvious shelf as it gets a hell of a lot deeper on the other side.

Other than this, the last photo I have to show you today is one of the spit of land that forms Garton Sands. With house prices here being almost double pretty much anywhere else in the regions its not surprising to find that the beaches here are almost always busy and thriving and a very popular form of relaxation for the residents of Garton Bay. Of course all the popularity isn't very welcomed by the homeowners of Garton Sands who generally think of themselves as above the rest of the region but screw it. If they weren't intelligent enough to realise that it was going to be a busy place then that's their fault not ours.