Flood Gulls. A term from the great Rachel Carson’s book Under the Sea-Wind ‘Because they fed on the rising tide, the skimmers were called flood gulls. … The flood gulls circled the island and crossed and recrossed’.

Tidal Intrusion. This refers to the extent to which tidal water finds its way upstream in an estuary at high tide. This can refer to the reach of the tidel inland, and also the consequences of that, particulalry degrees of salinity. (Source here).

See the Glossary here

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Tidal Cultures is a wonderful collection of stories, links, essays, media programmes and more collected in a blog published Owain Jones (Bath Spa University).

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This looks very exciting for those intertested in tides!

I have booked to go. Screen grab below.

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I will be speaking at this event. Tickets and more info here.

Heather Green kindly shared this with me. She made it for friends about a decade agao she says.

I an so plesed that Heather and I are now working together on the Severn Estuary element of her Tidal Timespace project. See here for that.