High-browed pounders
Crashing, sonorous waves drowning that wonderfully rustling sound of ‘skittish shingle’, pebbles and shells dashing up and down the beach...
Seal-coloured sea
How many colours to describe the sea? I have never come across seal-coloured – a sleek, deep grey-taupe. But search...
Of curling waves
Tarka the otter enjoys his first exposure to the sea, with a wave being likened appropriately to a shell-fish.
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Thalassa, thalassa
Osip Mandelstam is a favourite poet whose prose I only recently discovered.  His Journey to Armenia is a marvelous, textured complement to...
Cretan KPIs – Key Penmanship Indicators – VII
I found this description of the stark Cretan landscape startlingly original, using good prose as a metaphor and incidentally giving...
The tide running with you and the sun out
How many times I've read about exploration, about getting in a boat or a ship and chancing it, and yet...
White-capped sea
This is Jesus being spoken to by Peter, but unable to hear through the noise of his own turmoil or...
The brimming basin of the sea
When I read this description of the sea I thought immediately of the photo you see featured here, which I...
Body-gulping Charybdis
If ever there was an argument for steering a middle course, it is the horrific pair of sailor slayers, Scylla...
Scobie and the sea
This quote has haunted me since I first read Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet about thirty years ago. It is still on my wall...
Hare-bell sea
A lyrical description of the Greek island of Thera, bursting with flowers and trees, and all sloping down to a...
Fish-haunted seas
Loved this sense of ichthyo-abundance in seas now widely depleted of fish stocks. And the idea of a gift for...
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