We went for a walk along the esplanade in Kirkcaldy today and as you can see it was high tide – in fact very high tide. The sea was coming right over the sea-wall, which is in desperate need of being renewed or at least patched up.
Whoever decided to pave the esplanade with brick paviors must be in need of a new brain. They are all being ripped up by the heavy waves and it makes it very dodgy underfoot.
We had to jump out of the way of the sea water and managed to miss being absolutely soaked, which is just as well because you really don’t want bits of the North Sea coming down on your head, thankfully the worst bit of debris which came in our direction was a plastic container which must have been tied to a boat at one point as the rope was still attached.
At the moment the weather is really calm with no high winds so the rough sea isn’t weather related, I think it’s something to do with the phase of the moon.
There is something about pictures of the sea buffeting the coast!
Paviors are best for driveways not for the seafront!
Jo,
I don’t even like the sea, I’m more of a hill and loch person, but there is something mesmerising about it when it’s rough. Photographs never seem to capture it though. I think concrete might stand a better chance than paviors, I can’t think what they have elsewhere.
I don’t like being on the ocean, much to my sailor husband’s disappointment, but I miss being close to the ocean. I grew up inland but lived within a few minutes of the Atlantic for most of my adult life. I didn’t realize how much I missed it until we moved to Philadelphia. I miss the cool sea breezes and the fog and the feeling of space that living next to the ocean provides. No matter how crowded the city (and Boston is a small city, about 500,000), there is the vast, open ocean right there. Humbling. But it’s scary, too. We lived in Nahant, MA, for a while, at the end of a neck in Boston Harbor, and were sometimes cut off from the mainland by the sea. Our apartment was damaged in the great storm of 1978, a few months after we moved to New Hampshire. And I just finished reading the book The Wave by Susan Casey, about rouge waves and tsunamis!
Joan,
I quite enjoy being on large ships even when it’s rough, I don’t get sea sick. We’ve lived near the sea for 23 years now but it makes me feel hemmed in because there is nowhere nice to walk. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was blue and warm but it’s usually grey and freezing. I’ll probably miss it when we move elsewhere though, there is that scary but thrilling feeling about it. The Atlantic (the west of Scotland and Cornwall) always seems so much clearer to me, it has interesting rock pools compared with the North Sea coast. I would hate to be cut off by the sea as you were, very scary. There’s a lot of coastal erosion in the UK – another good reason for not being too close to the sea.