happy happy sigh

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what's so wonderful about Polzeath (well, it's probably true for most beaches in our part of the world, isn't it) is that the tide sometimes hangs around the middle of the beach - as it is in these photos, the neap tide I believe - and other times, spring tides, it would be so high up the beach that you'd see no sand in one of these photos and also so far down the beach that almost all you'd see is sand

(in the 11:30 photo, in the image just below the boat you'll see something on the beach by the shore line - this is the surf school! eight or nine pupils lined up on the beach, learning about the tides and the rip and hopefully learning enough to keep them safe in the water)
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(gotta feel kinda sad for the guy who's been sat in that ice-cream trailer all day, haven't you?)(mind you, I suppose a job's a job)

8 comments:

Dave said...

The tide's out.

I, Like The View said...

not very far. . .

. . .and it's on the way in

Christopher said...

Thanks. I did enjoy the complete Polzeath file. You seem unwittingly to have caught my daughter in front of an ice-cream van. As it happens Polzeath is like a kind of ur-Olympus in my theogony. We should compare notes...

w v = resties: what I didn't have yesterday, but thank you for asking.

Rimshot said...

I must claim ignorance to most things tidal and oceanic and beach-related.

I've only ever once stood (knee deep) in the Pacific Ocean, and that for only a moment as it was February and the waters were quite cold. Haven't touched the Atlantic at all.

Me, I'm more of a fields and forests type I suppose. Perhaps it's simply what I'm used to, being Midwestern raised and a resident 'flat land'er.

Rimshot said...

You know, this visual of the tide coming in (or out) would make a lovely subject for, say, an etching or print of some sort. ;)

I, Like The View said...

you sweetheart

seeing as I've tried a river version of that, perhaps I could try a beach version!

hey! did you see that KAZ has blogged - go over to hers and give her a hug will you?

it's such a shame that you haven't gotten more familiar with the ocean - put it on your list of things to do before you run out of money

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XXX

Christopher you did once ask which beach was my first favourite. . .

'tis this one

it's one of those places, isn't it, in people's theowhatsits. . .

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Mel said...

Ohhhh....I'd sit in the ice cream truck! I mean, you'd get to watch the tide and the people come and go. Not a bad gig if you ask me.

*happy sigh* What a wonderful peek for this morning. :-)

mig said...

Such a gorgeous place!
Well you can hope that the ice cream man is having a really good day and will go home feeling successful - I notice he doesn't get there till 11.30 - perhaps he has an hour or two to enjoy on the beach before then?