How to Use Your Hands to See Underwater
When we look at water angles are important. Looking across the water, at shallow angles, we see mostly reflections – the colour of the water…
Tag: sea colour
The Colour and Shape of Navigation Marks
Most navigators, even inexperienced ones, learn that colours are important when trying to identify navigation marks at sea. And most people also know that there…
5 Sea Colours That Are Easy to See
Every time we look out at the sea there are lots of colours. Our brain tends to mash them all up because it is busy…
How to Read Water
Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea A New York Times Bestseller. A Sunday Times “Must Read” book. A must-have book for walkers, sailors,…
The Supermoon and Tides
Tides are at the greatest range near a full or new moon and these are called ‘spring tides’. This is when the sun and moon’s…
How to Read Wave Patterns at the Coast
I took this photo from the South West Coast Path in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, a few days ago. In it we can see…
Depth and Colour
This photo shows the colour difference as the water shallows over a sandbank of the beach at West Wittering. Colour has been used by nautical…
Totland Bay Pier
In this photo that I took ten days ago of Totland Bay Pier on the Isle of Wight, there is a lot of blue. We…
The Colour of the Sea
I had been working on the chapter about the sea in my book last week, so was even more finely tuned to its vagaries than…