04 June 2010 by Tristan Gooley
Back from a short family camping trip to the Isle of Wight, where I stumbled across this wonderful sign on the side of an old lifeboat station house.
In case it is not legible in the picture, the words read as follows:
When full or new
You see the Moon,
The tides far out in the afternoon.
But when the Moon’s
At either quarter,
At tea the beach
Is underwater.
Six hours the water
ebbs away,
An hour later
Every day.
Get down to the beach
As soon as you can
Time and Tide
Wait for no man.
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How divine is that?
Tags: camping, Isle of Wight, moon, tide, tide cycle, totland bay |
06 April 2009 by Tristan Gooley
My friend, John, who certainly qualifies as working in one of the more unusual fields, has just returned from an unusual work trip to Venezuela and the Orinoco Delta. John is also an alumni of my natural navigation school and a reporter in the sailing world, see Captain JP’s Log. I asked him to do me a favour, to keep his senses alert and to see if he could glean any useful wayfinding scraps whilst out there. He did well, very well. Here is an excerpt from his ‘report’!
I tried to find out how the Warao people who live in the delta navigate and as I speak no Spanish and they no English (they have their own language and actually not all of them speak Spanish) I had to use our Venezuela guide as a translator. However English was her fourth language after Spanish, Italian and…
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Tags: navigation school, orinoco delta, sense of direction, tide cycle, wayfinding |
