I can see it easily. I can hear the rocks tumbling when the waves are kicking. I have to walk to the side of the house for that, but most windy mornings, if the tide is coming in, I hear the breakers. Next door, they say they hear the waves through the front room windows, which must be very nice. We're a bit farther back - 50m/yards from the shoreline, on a plateau. The beach below the drop off is gravel, sand and lots of fist sized rocks.
It isn't a luxury Mexican beach - the um, nippy water hits with a jolt even in high summer, and the wild tides make the water appear brown at certain times of day, or on cloudy days. And this is a dirty old town - a rusting industrial town with a busy port coming back to life. There is pollution across the cove, from a refinery and a pulp mill. But you can avoid that easily where I am.
Hop on your bike, @Back in the fold. Come take a listen and a look.
I like to weigh down new hardwood for a summer, underwater in a daphnia tub. By the time the cold comes, I'll have pretty good options with it, and I can anchor it as @TwoTankAmin does. The river driftwood goes right in, often if I have hungry fry. It sinks pretty quickly. I used to have three Peckoltia woodcats that grazed it down to barewood - they were my driftwood processing factory. I eventually have them to a friend though. I should have kept them.
It isn't a luxury Mexican beach - the um, nippy water hits with a jolt even in high summer, and the wild tides make the water appear brown at certain times of day, or on cloudy days. And this is a dirty old town - a rusting industrial town with a busy port coming back to life. There is pollution across the cove, from a refinery and a pulp mill. But you can avoid that easily where I am.
Hop on your bike, @Back in the fold. Come take a listen and a look.
I like to weigh down new hardwood for a summer, underwater in a daphnia tub. By the time the cold comes, I'll have pretty good options with it, and I can anchor it as @TwoTankAmin does. The river driftwood goes right in, often if I have hungry fry. It sinks pretty quickly. I used to have three Peckoltia woodcats that grazed it down to barewood - they were my driftwood processing factory. I eventually have them to a friend though. I should have kept them.
