StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: tides

Late spring and the sand tide used to go out, what I'm not sure of is how much the new launching ramp - this steel & concrete monstrosity on the right - will affect the sand level on the outer harbour beach. This area is prime dog exercising territory, at times there can be more dogs than people on the sands, but it is always busy !

Increasing numbers of people, property and areas will become at risk [or greater risk] of flooding from weather and tidal events if sea level is allowed to continue rising at the present rate of approximately 4cm [c 1 1/2"] per decade. The current rate is fuelled by land ice [glaciers & ice sheets] melting - loss of sea ice has no discernible affect on sea level, but does affect salinity and wildlife. [note : scale of these maps does not show enough detail, many UK counties are actually very diverse in their flood risk] . . Not my Image ; Fair Use & public information

A very wide expanse of sand (& some mud) in the outer harbour at Whitehaven. Low tide just about as low as it gets on the Autumn "spring tides" ... [tide table ...] - if you look very carefully at the far side of the harbour, you can just see the line of the deep water channel leading to the sea lock. The clouds and hills in the distance are in Scotland, the far shore of the Solway Firth.