Staring into water

We live by the sea… but our sea is on an estuary and although it is perfectly clean it is full of mud particles, washed down the Severn from Wales and from England. We can see Wales across the channel, but the sea we look across at our neighbour is browny-grey, greeny-brown, and definitely opaque rather than crystal clear. When the sea comes in, it races in, but the waves are not very exciting, and although there are white horses further out when the wind is up, we don’t get those long rolling, crashing waves, breaking on the shore.

There is nothing nicer than being by a clear pellucid sea, there is something captivating about staring down into the water, maybe seeing little creatures, but maybe just seen the weeds washing backwards and forwards as if swaying in an underwater breeze. Even better is sitting by a tidal pool and watching it fill or empty, measuring the level of the water along a tide line on the rocks… there is something peaceful and mesmeric about it, almost meditative, letting your mind just drift free… However, because  we don’t have this here, it is extra pleasurable when we do visit a coastline with more exciting sea!