On one day during our holiday in Essaouira in Morocco, the sea did something spectacular. It turned red. A thick band, which ran right along the beach, turned uniformly brown-red overnight. The colour stopped abruptly about a couple of hundred metres out to sea. The following day the effect had disappeared.
The locals told me this was a regular effect of sediment from the nearby river. I could not get enough height for a perfect photo, but hopefully you can make out the sudden change from brown-red to blue-green in this image.
Changing subjects as fast as the sea off Essaouira, there was a lovely review of my book by an American newspaper over the weekend.
I would like to pretend that an English professor compares my writing to Thoreau’s every weekend, but the fact that I am actively considering tracking down all those English teachers, who, over the…
