tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post8490642891363470987..comments2024-03-28T10:05:36.756+00:00Comments on Crafty Green Poet: Tide by Hugh Aldersey-Williams Crafty Green Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-72683949581158839222020-11-28T17:17:44.542+00:002020-11-28T17:17:44.542+00:00Sounds great, thanks for sharing the book review.
...Sounds great, thanks for sharing the book review.<br />Take care, enjoy your weekend!eileeninmdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-32872865191279685542020-11-27T13:42:18.573+00:002020-11-27T13:42:18.573+00:00Hi Jeff, yes tides can make huge differences, and ...Hi Jeff, yes tides can make huge differences, and as a sailor you must know lots about that! <br /><br />Rabbit's Guy - that's interesting to know, good that people are looking after the fish and whales. <br /><br />Jeff - you had commented and your comment is now visible, i just hadn't kept up with publishing comments quickly enough! Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-92232875705034734702020-11-27T12:37:23.749+00:002020-11-27T12:37:23.749+00:00I thought I had commented here... :( This book s...I thought I had commented here... :( This book sounds interesting. While I have moved into the mountains, for a good part of my life I have lived near salt water and tidal areas. The Atlantic Blight, where Georgia is (the coastline dips inward) creates the highest tides on the east coast south of Nova Scotia. With extreme tides (around 10 feet) the current at its peak was so strong you couldn't easily paddle against it. Tides also had to be factored into strategy when racing sailboats (do you stay out in the middle where the wind is better but the tide is stronger or do you hug the short, hoping for eddies to propel you forward and knowing the wind wouldn't be as strong). <br /><br />https://fromarockyhillside.com Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18339789596944683688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-81136646382653136552020-11-26T22:46:21.612+00:002020-11-26T22:46:21.612+00:00Great book and subject! Where I live, in the Sali...Great book and subject! Where I live, in the Salish Sea, surf smelt and sand lance - both like grunion - come in large schools and lay millions of eggs at high tides. There is a very large corp of scientists and volunteers and agencies that work to find and monitor the good spawning beaches and protect them from the endless urge of development. These are Forage fish and among other things important food for salmon which in turn are the food for our "resident" orca (killer) whales - some 74 of them now - that only eat fish. Lots and lots of all sorts of efforts and publicity to try to save this group from extinction. So - always inspiring to hear of other activity around the world aimed at saving and improving our shore side environments! RGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02017190779860810318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16542790.post-74916029917720605722020-11-26T15:43:58.359+00:002020-11-26T15:43:58.359+00:00The part of the Southeast US coastline, from south...The part of the Southeast US coastline, from south of Charleston to St Mary's Georgia (known as a blight) has the highest tides on the east coast south of Nova Scotia--at times the tides were at 10 feet, and regular tides at around 7 feet. I grew up in the NC coast where the tides are only 3 feet. It's interesting the difference such tides make--I could paddle against a tide in NC, but in GA when it was the strongest, you could barely make headway paddling against it. Interesting about how in Rome, Geece and Egypt the tides were not very strong. <br /><br />As for songs, you gotta add Otis Redding's, "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, watching the tide roll away..."<br />Jeffhttps://fromarockyhillside.comnoreply@blogger.com