Journal
The journal
Stories from the water, the beaches and the quiet months, from the two people who write this guide. One longer piece a month and shorter notes in between.
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The first cold front of the season
Read the story: The first cold front of the seasonWhat happens offshore when the first real front comes through in November, and why every captain on the coast is up before four.
Latest stories
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A rainy day on Hutchinson Island with children
Three museums within a mile of each other, a beach café for lunch and a plan that survived a full…
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What Captain Marsh says about the first front
A line from a fictional charter captain that every real one would recognise.
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The tide table we actually use
Half of this guide depends on the tide. Here is where we look it up, and what the numbers mean…
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Blowing Rocks after the front, in pictures
Four photographs from the morning after a north wind, when the sea came up through the rock exactly as promised.
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The ospreys are back on the channel markers
Every February the ospreys rebuild on the same markers in the lagoon, and the whole river watches.
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The ten houses of refuge
In 1876 the government built ten houses along an empty coast so that shipwrecked sailors would not die of thirst…
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Low tide at Bathtub Reef, hour by hour
A morning spent watching the reef pool appear and disappear, with a note on when to arrive and when to…
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A night at the boat parade
Sixty boats, a brass band, a cold wind off the river and the best Saturday night of the Stuart year.
The coast, once a month
Tides, what is biting, what is on and one place worth the drive. One email a month, easy to leave, nothing to buy.
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