This is an interesting photo! Looks like a giant just sucked up all the water and stranded the boats. I like the blue lines of the tide streams and pools. So, does this happen every day?
Hee hee, Vic. I remember seeing photos of a ship doing just that.
Petrea and Ms.M: Twice a day. Tides are tides, all over the world, and as long as physics keeps on working we'll have them. A lot of the North Norfolk coast is wide, tidal salt marsh, like here at Wells-Next-The-Sea (oddly named as it is a fishing port that is miles from the sea itself). The land is so flat here that even a small tidal swell can pull back miles. When it comes back in you'd better not be stuck out on the mudflats as it will easily outrun you. These huge tidal flats are why Norfolk is such a fantastic place to watch migrating birds and waders. The tides provide a twice-daily, "all you can eat" feast of shellfish, shrimp and worms, and the whole place is sometimes solid with birds and wildlife documentary crews. Of course the seafood here is beyond amazing. Sold fresh off the boat and eaten standing on the fish dock. I love it.
Me too, Prudence! Well, I'm anosmic, so let's say I love the "taste" of low tide. Rotting seaweed and salty air, mud and ozone. Wonderful. It might not sound like much but is is definitely a comforting aroma.
The tides in southern New Jersey were not quite as extreme. I spent a summer in Maine and saw tidal extremes like this! I used to crab when the tides came in and out. Imagine that my family got tired of eating those wonderful blue crabs that I brought home every day.
Neetzy, Maine has indeed got very similar tides. And very similar crabs and lobsters! Most of New England got settled by folk from around here as it was pretty much identical (they even copied our lighthouses). Just along the coast from here is the original Boston and New England is scattered with East Anglian town and village names (and accents). Nobody should EVER tire of eating crabs! Mmmmmmm …
Me too, Ms.M. It's samphire season over here so fresh seafood on a bed of buttered samphire is the most common meal to come out of my kitchen right now.
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If the tide went out that much here at Planet Newy there'd be coal ships leaning crazily all over the place.
Wait... didn't that already happen?
Does this happen every day?
This is an interesting photo! Looks like a giant just sucked up all the water and stranded the boats. I like the blue lines of the tide streams and pools.
So, does this happen every day?
Hee hee, Vic. I remember seeing photos of a ship doing just that.
Petrea and Ms.M: Twice a day.
Tides are tides, all over the world, and as long as physics keeps on working we'll have them.
A lot of the North Norfolk coast is wide, tidal salt marsh, like here at Wells-Next-The-Sea (oddly named as it is a fishing port that is miles from the sea itself).
The land is so flat here that even a small tidal swell can pull back miles. When it comes back in you'd better not be stuck out on the mudflats as it will easily outrun you.
These huge tidal flats are why Norfolk is such a fantastic place to watch migrating birds and waders. The tides provide a twice-daily, "all you can eat" feast of shellfish, shrimp and worms, and the whole place is sometimes solid with birds and wildlife documentary crews.
Of course the seafood here is beyond amazing. Sold fresh off the boat and eaten standing on the fish dock. I love it.
I know I am a bit different but I love the smell of low tide!
Me too, Prudence! Well, I'm anosmic, so let's say I love the "taste" of low tide. Rotting seaweed and salty air, mud and ozone. Wonderful. It might not sound like much but is is definitely a comforting aroma.
The tides in southern New Jersey were not quite as extreme. I spent a summer in Maine and saw tidal extremes like this! I used to crab when the tides came in and out. Imagine that my family got tired of eating those wonderful blue crabs that I brought home every day.
Oooo, now I want some fresh seafood! And to watch the tide come in -- and go out.
Neetzy, Maine has indeed got very similar tides. And very similar crabs and lobsters! Most of New England got settled by folk from around here as it was pretty much identical (they even copied our lighthouses). Just along the coast from here is the original Boston and New England is scattered with East Anglian town and village names (and accents).
Nobody should EVER tire of eating crabs! Mmmmmmm …
Me too, Ms.M. It's samphire season over here so fresh seafood on a bed of buttered samphire is the most common meal to come out of my kitchen right now.
I detect symbolism.
I see boats.
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