I'm noticing once again the singular things I noticed as a boy: the hidden springs, the sound of silence, nap of tablecloths, sea taste of iodine, the scents of clothes, raw grain of wood, a scrambling interface of ebbing tide and incoming tide race.
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A long sandy bar stretches from east to west making an entrance at lower stages of the tide hazardous if not impossible. Inshore from the bar there is a shallow lagoon, which contains extensive mussel beds. At higher stages of the tide the channel admits larger craft, although the tide race can be strong."Navigation" RFYC.
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Alison Smith, John Petts and the Caseg Press (Ashgate 1999). The cottage they shared, Ty'r Mynydd, bears a plaque commemorating their work.SH6268: Ty'r mynydd, Mountain Street, Rachub, Geograph.org.uk Chamberlain also produced prose works, including a novel (The Water Castle, 1964) and Tide-Race, a memoir of life at Carreg, Bardsey Island, where she lived and worked from 1947 until 1962.
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Many of the islands are swept by strong tides, and the Corryvreckan tide race between Scarba and Jura is one of the largest whirlpools in the world.The Corryvreckan is regularly cited as the third largest whirlpool of the world - see for example "Corryvreckan Whirlpool " Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 19 September 2009. Some sources suggest it is the second largest after the Moskstraumen.
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The head is a 100m high rocky spur capped by the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse. The Old Norse name was Dunrøstar høfdi, it means "The Head onto the loud tide-race", referring to the noise of Sumburgh Roost. The area is an RSPB nature reserve. The cliffs were home to large numbers of seabirds with for example 33,000 puffins in the year 2000.
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"Brenda Chamberlain and Bardsey Island" , Bardsey Island Trust. The publication of Tide-Race coincided with a solo exhibition of Chamberlain's paintings at the Zwemmer Gallery in London. Chamberlain won the first two Gold Medals awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Fine Art, in 1951 for the painting Girl with a Siamese Cat and in 1953 for The Cristin Children.Gold Medal for Fine Art , The National Eisteddfod of Wales.
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The Marsdiep The Marsdiep is a deep tide-race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands, and running southwards between sandbanks. That gap connects the North Sea and the Waddenzee. Around 1000 AD and before, much of the modern Waddenzee and IJsselmeer was land and the Marsdiep was an ordinary brook. An early form of its name is Maresdeop, a name probably related to modern Dutch moerasdiep ("swamp deep").
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Dunrossness Baptist Church Dunrossness, (Old Norse: Dynrastarnes meaning "headland of the loud tide-race", referring to the noise of Sumburgh Roost) is the southernmost parish of Shetland, Scotland. Historically the name Dunrossness has usually referred to the area on the Shetland mainland south of Quarff. However, in 2016 there were three separate Shetland Community Councils for a) Gulberwick, Quarff and Cunningsburgh; b) Sandwick; and c) Dunrossness. The 2011 census defined Dunrossness as including everybody within the British ZE2 postal code, which goes as far north as Gulberwick.
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Many of these offshore islands are swept by strong tides, and the Corryvreckan tide race between Scarba and Jura is one of the largest whirlpools in the world. Other strong tides are to be found in the Pentland Firth between mainland Scotland and Orkney, and the Grey Dog between Scarba and Lunga. There are also numerous clusters of islands in the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde and in freshwater lochs such as Loch Lomond and Loch Maree. Outlying islands include St Kilda and Rockall the status of which is disputed.
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Possible eddy during 9–10 knot tide race at Hampton, based on 1978 map The cause of the erosion and flooding which eventually drowned this development was the original Hampton Pier. The ebb and flow of tidal streams is powerful in the shallow Thames Estuary, where its tidal waters are caught in the vortex of the tidal push from Atlantic waters via both the north and south of the British Isles. Off Herne Bay, the running ebb current moves at 10.15 knots, and the flow at . Where strong currents meet and divide, or are disrupted by uneven coastal features, there are eddies.
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87–94 In 1814 the area of the island was estimated as fifty acres.'The Scilly Islands', in Magna Britannia: volume 3, Cornwall (1814), pp. 330-337 At the north-east end of the island a fragment of altered killas, which at one time covered a much wider area, could be seen in 1911. In common with the larger island, the place names are mostly English with the exception of Camper on the south-east coast (meaning tide race or roost in Cornish) and Porthmoren, a place on the west of the shingle and boulder bar that separates the two islands.
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These skills were fully tested when, in 1980, he was named principal of what was then St David's University College, the smallest and most endangered part of the University of Wales. Retaining a home in Derbyshire, he saw his Lampeter appointment as an opportunity to get back in touch with his roots. In addition to literary criticism such as his study of Harri Webb (1993) for the University of Wales Press in the "Writers of Wales" series, his publications included several poetry collections, including Tide- Race (1976), Dear Tokens (1987) and The Waters of Comfort (1998). His collected poems were published in the year of his death by Rare Books & Berry Ltd.
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