Not quite as fierce as a great white, but my springer charged up to a sunbathing seal on Constantine beach (the north coast of Cornwall one, not the other one) and got a bit of a shock when he discovered that it definately wasnt a friendly black lab!
One thing that does get my goat in the summer is visitors not checking tide times and getting cut off by incoming tides. Hubby and I had to help ferry a family with four youngsters plus all their paraphinalia (buggies, blankets, toys, nappy bags etc) over the rocks between Georges Well and Tregirls in Padstow as they hadnt realised the tide was coming in!
Tell us about it - we in Norfolk get the same problems every year, particularly on the mudflats near Blakeney etc, people always having to be rescued - favourite quote, "..... but the high tide was at a different time when we were here before Duh!!! "
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As a sailor, I'm only too aware of the effects of the tide - but many landlubbers aren't. Every year several people (mostly couples in cars who thought the beach would be a good place for a tryst) have to be rescued from the (very wide) beach at Southport when the tide comes in. And then there were the cockle-pickers at Morecambe Bay
And we saw a couple of basking sharks in the Firth of Clyde in September a few years ago. Apparently they arrive off Cornwall about now, and work their way north during the summer.
We had an emmit pitch a tent actually ON the Camel Estury Doom Bar at low tide - Crazy! He was fine but I think he lost his tent during his swift exit as the tide rose
swam with a baby shark in maldives seriously tiny as i can barely swim nothing on earth would keep me away from cornwall-my spiritual home for more than a year at a time, children are v little so only paddle, swim in pool, hope may be bit quieter, could do with a few stags and hens keeping away!
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Not quite as fierce as a great white, but my springer charged up to a sunbathing seal on Constantine beach (the north coast of Cornwall one, not the other one) and got a bit of a shock when he discovered that it definately wasnt a friendly black lab!
One thing that does get my goat in the summer is visitors not checking tide times and getting cut off by incoming tides. Hubby and I had to help ferry a family with four youngsters plus all their paraphinalia (buggies, blankets, toys, nappy bags etc) over the rocks between Georges Well and Tregirls in Padstow as they hadnt realised the tide was coming in!
Tell us about it - we in Norfolk get the same problems every year, particularly on the mudflats near Blakeney etc, people always having to be rescued - favourite quote, "..... but the high tide was at a different time when we were here before
Duh!!! "
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As a sailor, I'm only too aware of the effects of the tide - but many landlubbers aren't. Every year several people (mostly couples in cars who thought the beach would be a good place for a tryst) have to be rescued from the (very wide) beach at Southport when the tide comes in. And then there were the cockle-pickers at Morecambe Bay
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpLu6LPu4I&hd=1
And we saw a couple of basking sharks in the Firth of Clyde in September a few years ago. Apparently they arrive off Cornwall about now, and work their way north during the summer.
We had an emmit pitch a tent actually ON the Camel Estury Doom Bar at low tide - Crazy! He was fine but I think he lost his tent during his swift exit as the tide rose
swam with a baby shark in maldives seriously tiny as i can barely swim nothing on earth would keep me away from cornwall-my spiritual home for more than a year at a time, children are v little so only paddle, swim in pool, hope may be bit quieter, could do with a few stags and hens keeping away!