High Tide and Green Grass (with apologies to the Stones!)

Friends on facebook will have seen plenty of our photos of Jenny Brown's Point; it being one of our favourite walks.

On September 5th we did the walk when the tide was so low we could get all the way round the headland on the beach.

On Sunday we did the same walk and it was a different picture..

We went to repeat the walk today to see what it was like at high tide. Fortunately today's high tide was 13:14 at a height of 9.95m

We were amazed. The only way we got round the headland was by scrambling over the rocks and a fence or two!

 

As we made our way back, an hour and a half later, the water level had dropped by about a metre making it possible to walk without scrambling over the rocks.

The matting put down to protect the salt marsh from further erosion had been torn back by the tide

and the erosion of the saltmarsh had continued apace..

The only sign left of the high tide was debris on the fence and a line of flotsam and jetsom deposited on the embankment and the grass looked so green it was almost unreal..

A fantastic walk at any time but with the addition of the wind and tide, today was spectacular!

Enjoying the weather, whatever the weather - Part 1

Yesterday we had the most glorious sunshine for our walk round to Jenny Brown's Point and onto the headland at Jack Scout.

The debris washed up in the storms along with the high tide last month, was still visible on the far side of the levy.

 

The channels were full when we arrived, capturing reflecions from the blue of the sky and the clouds

Colin silhouetted against the skyline...

The storms had also caused a rapid advance in erosion of this part of the coast

Netting is being pegged along stretches of the shore to aid the regrowth of salt marsh plants

Which came first chicken or egg???

I have never before seen snowdrops growing right on the coast but here they were just stunning!

This is the view from Jenny Brown's Point..

Walking along the headland at Jack Scout National Trust it's easy to see the prevailing wind direction, but yesterday there was hardly a breath.

And if all that isn't enough, there's always the wildlife to watch!