The tide is high

Ever since we've come to La Tranche our days have been ruled by the tides: what time of day and how big. It's great fun going in the sea when it's coming in, but not too high yet, and low tide is ideal for exploring the rock pools and shrimping. Tables are printed each year giving the exact details of high and low tides and the 'co-efficient' for each tide, the larger the co-efficient the higher and lower the tides. I'm sure these must exist in the UK but I've never heard them mentioned.

Anyway this is a long-winded way of saying yesterday was the highest co-efficient that I remember and the tide was dramatically 'high' as the photos show. The weather was good (definitely much cooler now though) and I couldn't help but think what a high tide like this would be like in bad weather!!

The locals (Tranchais) are all very knowledgable and we were not alone in watching the forces of nature at work. I'll put some photos in an extra post above.