The tide is out and most of the boats in the creek are stranded. This poor one appears to have been stranded for more than the ebb and flow of a single tide. In fact, I’d say many, many tides have come and gone while this boat has been moored here.

Despite this there are a number of things you can tell with certainty when you look at this photo. This is a muddy river estuary or creek as we know them. There are herons and swans mooching about in the edge of the water. It’s tidal and there is loads of seaweed. It all points to the South Coast.

Why? Because the north coast is clean, there is no mud or this sort of brown seaweed. The constant hard churning of the waves breaking onto the coast from the Atlantic ensures that seaweed holdfasts are unable to hang on. Mud doesn’t build up and the beaches are mostly unadulterated sand. It’s all very different there. It’s a fact.