Well maybe we exaggerate but, as the first days of Spring arrive, the drivers of cars who don’t understand how sand works arrive in their droves.
And lo and behold once again it has started with the driver of this vehicle driving down onto Towan Beach, Newquay, trying to turn around and getting stuck.
No, happens every year.
Sometimes the tide gets there faster than the recovery truck.
(first dip-stick this year, a bit earlier than usual,
not sure what that one is, but BMW’s seem to be most regular victims)
At least it’s not quicksand, like some parts of the Solway Firth. Last autumn, a woman walking her dog one evening along the shore a few miles from here got stuck in quicksand, She phoned 999 for help, but it was getting dark and the tide was coming in. The searchers couldn’t find her and she drowned. They found her body the next day. The poor woman - it doesn’t bear thinking about…
True. And the Solway tides are traditionally described as ‘faster than a galloping horse’. From our holiday cottage overlooking the River Nith, south of Dumfries, you can sometimes see a tidal bore, with the incoming tide flowing in over the top of the outgoing river. Quite a sight. The strength and height of the bore depend on the height of the tide, but sometimes it sounds like a train coming up the river.
