Day 13.032: Spring and snow

Whatever the groundhog may say - and I've defended him in the past with graphs - spring is not with us yet, but we did happen to encounter a spring tide on Sunday. Spring tides occur twice a month and are the tides with the biggest height difference between high and low tide. In this case, the high tide was only fairly normally high, but the low tide was significantly lower than normal - and that is what we witnessed.

The other thing was the ominous line of clouds (bottom left). I suspect they are the reason for the snow flakes that fell as we walked back along the beach - falling in big loose clumps that exploded when they landed on my glove into groups of very pretty and large snowflakes.