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Dipping in a sea pool
It is Day Two of the Dip a Day Challenge. The challenge is to raise awareness for the work of Surfers Against Sewage (SOS) in our seas and coastal waters. I headed down to the beach. But the tide was so far out across the sands that I decided to have a swim in the…
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Heart of Ice: Book 2 of Clara Day Mystery Thriller Series
This is the second journal of Clara Day and follows her deeper involvement with The Marsdon Corporation, a special arm of the secret service. After convalescing at home, in the isolated rural farm with her parents, she is desperate to cleave herself from their iron grip, and strive to carve out a new future on…
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Footsteps in the Sand
The Beach today A dog and his owner? A dog on his own and a walker coming along before or after? Animal and man going in the same direction – together or not, sand doesn’t record the time of activities but it does photograph their imprint as a temporary record between the tides. Did you…
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Tadasana
The Beach today A wide expanse of honey-milk, apricot-tinged skies and reflected sand can make you feel like you are on top of the world! Bathed in the beauty of nature. As the sun sets it is like watching an organic light show. It makes one feel as if they could fly, like the gulls,…
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You have reached your destination
The beach today Nowhere does the feeling of constant change appear more stark than on a beach. The waves roll up and down the beach as the tide goes in and out marking the passing of the lunar month. The clouds scud across the sky as the wind blows the seconds past our eyes. People…
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There’s always a way through
The beach today The beach is different every day as the tide rearranges the pebbles, creates new rock pools and streams. Today my way was blocked by a new rockpool. Above the rockpool a deep stream gurgled back across the beach to feed this pool. Below the pool, an overflow stream merrily chatted its way…
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What will our legacy be?
The beach today To spot a shell half buried in the sand, or glistening from the hightide line of tangled seaweed and driftwood, is a special moment – what treasure is being revealed? Many are so pretty, they find their way home in pockets, to adorn shelves and decorate our homes long after the creature…
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Live within the inter-tidal zone
The beach today At each incoming tide, the beach is wiped clean, fresh to begin again; to be stamped with the imprint of walkers, dogs, gulls, and the life of all those who move within the sands and leave trails and tracks of their passing – until the next incoming tide. We tend to see…
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The Fizzing Zone
Life is a balancing act between safety and danger, between edging close to the steep drop and maintaining a foothold on firm ground. We hold our hands out towards the fire to get warm, but not too close to be burned. The boundary between the two – danger and safety seems to fizzle and pop,…
Marine Moments 