2.3m waves - online estimate
That was the average I saw quoted on a tide-time site for East Fife. From the shore it looked less, but from past experience I knew that having your feet on dry land always shrinks apparent wave heights... When your boat is at the nadir of the wave trough and you've lost sight of land till the following swell rides your boat up to the next crest, those waves look like boat eaters and every mile separating you from home harbour seems to take an hour to be covered, the moment of crossing the bar and feeling the deck level out under your feet - is welcome beyond compare.
Before I forget - the bird's a winter-plumaged Black Headed Gull. In the glow of the afternoon sunshine their legs and bills looked strongly orange, not the deep red I'm more used to seeing. Fooled me into thinking the storm had blown a fleet of different birds ashore from those normally seen.
2.3m waves - online estimate
That was the average I saw quoted on a tide-time site for East Fife. From the shore it looked less, but from past experience I knew that having your feet on dry land always shrinks apparent wave heights... When your boat is at the nadir of the wave trough and you've lost sight of land till the following swell rides your boat up to the next crest, those waves look like boat eaters and every mile separating you from home harbour seems to take an hour to be covered, the moment of crossing the bar and feeling the deck level out under your feet - is welcome beyond compare.
Before I forget - the bird's a winter-plumaged Black Headed Gull. In the glow of the afternoon sunshine their legs and bills looked strongly orange, not the deep red I'm more used to seeing. Fooled me into thinking the storm had blown a fleet of different birds ashore from those normally seen.