"... I could almost feel the undertow"

Ever since the joined forces of a storm-surge & a spring-tide hit the east coast on 5 December I was wondering how Spurn peninsula was faring. Only a week later we came across some images.

The road and the dunes have been washed away, the images below may tell the rest. Three dozens of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Hebridean sheep, a rare and beautiful species, drowned in the surge. See Yorkshire Post  and [BBC].

photo credit: RNLI

The image below is taken on the morning after the surge at 9am, a moment after high tide.

photo credit: Env Agency Geomatics

The submerged area is the site where we, Jo and I, recorded Fr-Agile early in the morning on 8 August '08. It was a stormy day too and cold as if it was winter.

Trying to imagine what it must have been like on 5 December ... a comment in the visitors' book at South Square Gallery, where Fr-Agile first was shown, surfaces: "Standing close I could almost feel the undertow."

This referred to Buoy [Fr-Agile]. Here's a studio clip:


A long post about a stretch of landscape - or rather seascape - that is rich in every aspect, wildlife, history and the power of the elements to name just a few. It's a microcosm that has been changed considerably.