Reading Wave Patterns – A Challenge
Watch the video above and study the patterns in the water. How many different wave patterns can you spot? What causes them and what do…
Tag: tide
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…
Reading Water in San Francisco
A massive thank you to Zina Deretsky in California, who got in touch because she is a wild swimmer who loves reading water. Zina is…
Time and Tide
BBC Devon have a delightful story about the sculptor, Marcus Vergette, on their section of the BBC website. Marcus is sculpting a series of ‘tidal…
Totland Bay Sign
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…
50 ultimate travel experiences: Les Ecrehous
A tiny piece about ‘Les Ecrehous’ islands, that I had written for the Guardian ages ago, featured in it last Saturday. Here it is: This…
Fort Ile de Raz
We spent the weekend on Alderney. We went there to muck about on the beaches and we were not disappointed. The water is still fresh…
Tide and the Big Clock
Time and navigation have a cosy relationship, as John Harrison, inventor of the chronometer that cracked the longitude problem in the 18th Century would attest.…