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Monthly Archives: April 2020
New item added to our page on Tide Related Artworks; Land Radius, Laura Dunkers, Scotland (UK) 2014.
Lindsey Shaw Bardsley; sand and tide diary / patterns / lovely pictures and videos on Instagram
On Instagram, Lindsey Shaw Bardsley has a ‘sand diary’ and posts many lovely pictures and video clips.
“My sand diary. Sand fanatic and observer of patterns, weather, dunes, tides. Surfcaster. Photographer of micro-landscapes.” See here on Instagram
Lindsey lives in Gloucester, MA, USA, which has extensive, amazing looking, intertidal areas and coastline. See Google map here.
Posts include video clips of tides coming in, and pools of water disappearing into quicksand, e.g. here
Thanks to Heather Green for the links.
Sunderland Point. An historic UK west coast mainland village which is cut off by the tide twice a day.
From Wikipedia
“Sunderland is unique in the United Kingdom as being the only community to be on the mainland and yet dependent upon tidal access. The only vehicular access to the village is via a single-track road from Overton 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away crossing a tidal marsh. The road is covered by water at every high tide. Among other effects, this results in the children of Sunderland sometimes being required to arrive late at school in Overton or to leave early to avoid being cut off by the tide.”
See here for source and more.
A BBC television programme about this village is here (but may not remain accessible)
Villages By The Sea: Sunderland Point.
A view of the tidal road is here
Here is a picture from Friends of Sunderland Point website
From their website
The Point is an attraction to those who wish to spend time rambling, bird watching, cycling, sketching, painting, photographing, observing wild flowers or simply admiring the hauntingly beautiful landscape of the estuary and salt marshes backed by the moors of North Lancashire to the East and the South Lakeland Fells to the North.”
DO NOT RISK IT!”
Non-Human Tidal Cultures. Dolphins using the tide to hunt!
A pod of dolphins has learnt to wait in the tide race of the incoming tide in Moray Firth, Scotland, at time of salmon migration. They swim to stay in place in the tide race, which runs around Chanonry Point, and catch salmon as they follow the flow of the tide up the estuary to their spawning grounds. This seems to unique to this group, and passed from generation to generation.
Channel Five: Series, Wild Britain; episode, Britain’s wild rivers.Broadcast on April 01 2020. Online here
Here are a few stills.
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