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Living in the Midlands is very frustrating for a sea lover like me but your site will keep me going between my visits. When little as a family we headed for Woolacombe – lovely . Now we’re a little older Cornwall’s the way. Coverack, St Ives, etc. etc . Love the site.
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Living in Cumbria means I’ve got the best of both worlds. The beauty of the expansive hills and the vast coastline. My new job is to safeguard the water quality of our beaches in Morecambe Bay. With it’s tidal bore, birds a plenty, it’s an amazing stretch of coastline.
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As an Anthropology graduate I am interested in the theory that early hominids went through a period of coastal living, developing certain physical attributes such as fat on our limbs that is lacking in other mammal species. Hunter-gatherers would certainly migrate to the sea shore to find seabird eggs and gather shell-fish at certain periods such as the low spring tides and summer months. This would enable the animals they normally trapped and hunted inland to enjoy a breeding period.
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Oh, the beaches on Lewis are everything to me. The Atlantic rolls in and it can be so wild and invigoratiing – I forget everything and get lost in it. At other times the beach is a sanctuary, somewhere to work things out when I don’t know which way to turn. The beach has always been there for me and it always will be. We come and go, it remains.
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The beach for me is always a great place to visit to feel truly relaxed and refreshed, guaranteed to make you smile! The beach is a place where I can relive my childhood memories through my own children, having fun days out on the beach building sandcastles, looking for buried treasure, paddling in the sea and finding pretty stones and shells. There are so many great beaches to choose from in the Northumberland area, you will be spoilt for choice!
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Beaches conjure up so many happy family holidays. Sunbathing, swimming, sandcastles, sailing, cricket, walking, wildlife etc. Blue skies, sea and calm water or grey, windy and crashing waves! All the different moods of nature and the wonderful feeling of having cobwebs blown away and being completely refreshed in mind and body. Sometimes it is the peacefulness of gently lapping waves on the shore which are sophorific and give rise to deep thoughts. Other times it is just relaxing to walk near the sea and watch others enjoying themselves. We love living near the sea and really enjoy holidays that involve beaches!
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Wonderful site, how do you get all this info?I have read a couple of posts on your site and I love your style. Thanks a million, keep up the good work.
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Thank you for the book Ian, it’s very impressive.
Very well written and put together.
And has given me ideas for holidays in the future!! -
It is the place where I can sense infinity and the wonder of nature. The colours of the sea make good use of the artist’s palette in soft but vibrant colours and the sea at times seems to mingle into the sky. It is where I go where I am troubled to ground myself, to find calm, or to celebrate good news. The sound of the sea, making its own unique music, both nourishes and sustains me. I need to be near the sea at least once a week and when I had to spend over 3 weeks in hospital in 2016 I felt trapped and I was only helped by finding a seascape on a wall to gaze at. I can walk for miles on the beach and find peace, to appreciate the present moment, and be still, to stop ‘and stare’. Being married to a conchologist means we share a love of the coast; where we are together but separate. He walks slowly methodically checking for razor shell records while I have the whole expanse of a sandy beach to walk along. After a short walk I usually find I am alone, having lost the ‘madding crowd’. Sand is my preference to a rocky beach and among my favourites are Formby beach, Merseyside, and Holkham, Norfolk, discovered in my childhood before the film ‘Shakespeare in love’ popularised it. Cornwall is my spiritual home as it holds so many hidden beaches & creeks, some still to be discovered.
Above all I wonder at the power of the sea, which has the ability to both harm and heal with its wide ranging moods from calm to turbulent stormy.
My dream is to live by the sea, to walk there every day, to dress for the weather. It would be heaven on earth to draw the curtains every morning to greet the sea and see what mood it has wakened to. Then to close the curtains as darkness falls and allow the sea to carry on
its never ending journey. The sea surrounds our world and will exist longer than us. Its power puts our lives into perspective.
Living in the Midlands is very frustrating for a sea lover like me but your site will keep me going between my visits. When little as a family we headed for Woolacombe – lovely . Now we’re a little older Cornwall’s the way. Coverack, St Ives, etc. etc . Love the site.
Living in Cumbria means I’ve got the best of both worlds. The beauty of the expansive hills and the vast coastline. My new job is to safeguard the water quality of our beaches in Morecambe Bay. With it’s tidal bore, birds a plenty, it’s an amazing stretch of coastline.
Keep on working, great job!
As an Anthropology graduate I am interested in the theory that early hominids went through a period of coastal living, developing certain physical attributes such as fat on our limbs that is lacking in other mammal species. Hunter-gatherers would certainly migrate to the sea shore to find seabird eggs and gather shell-fish at certain periods such as the low spring tides and summer months. This would enable the animals they normally trapped and hunted inland to enjoy a breeding period.
Oh, the beaches on Lewis are everything to me. The Atlantic rolls in and it can be so wild and invigoratiing – I forget everything and get lost in it. At other times the beach is a sanctuary, somewhere to work things out when I don’t know which way to turn. The beach has always been there for me and it always will be. We come and go, it remains.
The beach for me is always a great place to visit to feel truly relaxed and refreshed, guaranteed to make you smile! The beach is a place where I can relive my childhood memories through my own children, having fun days out on the beach building sandcastles, looking for buried treasure, paddling in the sea and finding pretty stones and shells. There are so many great beaches to choose from in the Northumberland area, you will be spoilt for choice!
Beaches conjure up so many happy family holidays. Sunbathing, swimming, sandcastles, sailing, cricket, walking, wildlife etc. Blue skies, sea and calm water or grey, windy and crashing waves! All the different moods of nature and the wonderful feeling of having cobwebs blown away and being completely refreshed in mind and body. Sometimes it is the peacefulness of gently lapping waves on the shore which are sophorific and give rise to deep thoughts. Other times it is just relaxing to walk near the sea and watch others enjoying themselves. We love living near the sea and really enjoy holidays that involve beaches!
Wonderful site, how do you get all this info?I have read a couple of posts on your site and I love your style. Thanks a million, keep up the good work.
Love Norman with the wonky eyebrows
Thank you for the book Ian, it’s very impressive.
Very well written and put together.
And has given me ideas for holidays in the future!!
It is the place where I can sense infinity and the wonder of nature. The colours of the sea make good use of the artist’s palette in soft but vibrant colours and the sea at times seems to mingle into the sky. It is where I go where I am troubled to ground myself, to find calm, or to celebrate good news. The sound of the sea, making its own unique music, both nourishes and sustains me. I need to be near the sea at least once a week and when I had to spend over 3 weeks in hospital in 2016 I felt trapped and I was only helped by finding a seascape on a wall to gaze at. I can walk for miles on the beach and find peace, to appreciate the present moment, and be still, to stop ‘and stare’. Being married to a conchologist means we share a love of the coast; where we are together but separate. He walks slowly methodically checking for razor shell records while I have the whole expanse of a sandy beach to walk along. After a short walk I usually find I am alone, having lost the ‘madding crowd’. Sand is my preference to a rocky beach and among my favourites are Formby beach, Merseyside, and Holkham, Norfolk, discovered in my childhood before the film ‘Shakespeare in love’ popularised it. Cornwall is my spiritual home as it holds so many hidden beaches & creeks, some still to be discovered.
Above all I wonder at the power of the sea, which has the ability to both harm and heal with its wide ranging moods from calm to turbulent stormy.
My dream is to live by the sea, to walk there every day, to dress for the weather. It would be heaven on earth to draw the curtains every morning to greet the sea and see what mood it has wakened to. Then to close the curtains as darkness falls and allow the sea to carry on
its never ending journey. The sea surrounds our world and will exist longer than us. Its power puts our lives into perspective.