Tide Marks by Alice Fox. See here
New artwork added to our page on Tide Related Artworks
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Article in Knowable Magazine. The tides they are a-changin’ — and it’s not just from climate change
“Dredging rivers, filling in wetlands and other human acts of engineering have shifted coastal ebbs and flows worldwide. Add rising sea levels, and the threat of storm surges and floods will worsen in some places.”
See here in full.
Thanks to Rhyddian Jones for alert.
Some good news is that there seem to be many more elvers running up the River Severn and other rivers (UK) this year. Following the tides!
Thanks to Andrew Kerr of the Sustainable Eeel Group for putting news updates on this on Facebook .
Click here to see a short bit of film from this year’s elver run.
New page added showing a photographic essay of the famous Purton Hulks, ‘ships’ graveyard’, Mid-Severn Estuary (UK). The largest ships’ graveyard in the UK, where 96 coastal trading vessels were beached over decades. Photos taken in 2010.
See page here
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
“Sunderland Point is a unique location. It is a village of 30 or so houses and farms at the end of a tidal causeway. The village is within 7 miles of both Lancaster and Morecambe, but has the attractions of more isolated locations and a landscape which intermingles salt marsh, beach, mud flats, farmland, residential dwellings, footpaths and roads, all at the side of an active waterway.
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.”
Also this warning:
“Tide tables should be consulted before visiting. Both the Causeway and car park are likely to be under several feet of water for 1 to 2 hours before and after high tide.
DO NOT RISK IT!”
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.
(We seek no commercial gain in using these images and acknowledge the copyright holder’s rights).
The Malaspina Art Society: Summer 2020 MAS Group Show: Intertidal Impressions. Exploring the space between land & sea through various media. This blog mentioned. Thanks!
Opening JUNE 4 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 Intertidal Impressions: Exploring the space between land & sea through various media.
The Malaspina Art Society’s Summer Group Show features qathet region artists exploring the changing sights, sounds, smells, motion, textures, plants and creatures of our northwest intertidal zones: the area of the marine shoreline that is exposed to air at low tide, and covered with seawater when the tide is high; its dynamic nature serving as a metaphor for resilience and adaptation.
See call for artists and more details here
Our Tide Related Artworks page is used as a reference and source of possible inspiration, as in:
“Site with inspirational mixed media works on tidal zones https://tidalcultures.wordpress.com/tidal-art-works/”
Treece definition card
Here is a card for the word Treece designed by the artist Heather Green
This goes with our previous post explaining the idea of this new tidal word.
Tidal Cultures 