Category Archives: Spring & Neap Tides

Bores on the Solway

Posted on October 30, 2020 by solwayshorewalker

The tidal bore on the Solway approached “…  with a hoarse and loud roar, and with a brilliance of phenomena and demonstration, incomparably more sublime than if the wide sandy water were densely scoured with the fleetest and the most … Continue reading →

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The Solway saltmarshes

Posted on August 29, 2017 by solwayshorewalker

At first light on a Sunday morning in late September, Norman Holton sat on the edge of Campfield Marsh near Bowness on the Solway. On the Scottish side the starlings were, as usual, gathering in great wheeling clouds, and as … Continue reading →

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Snippets 13: “A hare in a fix”

Posted on June 16, 2017 by solwayshorewalker

The polar bear on the ice-floe is the iconic image of climate change and the warming of our seas. Here on the Solway Firth nearly 140 years ago, the climate had changed in the other direction – towards a bitter … Continue reading →

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Snippets 11: big moon, big tides, at Allonby Bay

Posted on October 19, 2016 by solwayshorewalker

On Monday night the full moon, its face very slightly squashed, shone down on a stormy Solway Firth. The brown silt-laden waves pounded ashore and shortly after midnight the incoming tide that was battering the sea-defences at Dubmill Point reached … Continue reading →

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Snippets 7: Why are the best low tides always at the same time of day?

Posted on January 6, 2016 by solwayshorewalker

I’m starting to plan my 2016 guided shore-walks at Allonby Bay and Beckfoot, on the southern shore of the Solway. As a ‘low-tide guide’ (the title bestowed on me by BBC Radio 4’s Open Country) I work through the Silloth … Continue reading →

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