Arctic sunset

For the second time in a fortnight, the Kent estuary has been transformed into an Arctic waste and there are floes of ice coming down the Kent Channel. A polar bear would not look out of place here, or Shackleton man-hauling his sleds across the ice.

There are big tides at the moment and with every high tide the accumulated ice is lifted, cracked and broken. As the tide falls, ice blocks are strewn across the mudflats as seen here in this view from Sandside toward the sun setting behind Arnside. I may return to this theme with tomorrow's blip.

The whole country is frozen up and there is traffic chaos everywhere. Even Wifie's 20 minute train journey home from Ulverston turned into a 3 hour epic, as trains were cancelled and a bus was eventually summoned to take people home. I have just now at 8.15 pm picked her up from the station in the village.

Like everyone else we are wondering if we will be able to travel at the end of the week to be with family over Christmas.

Apologies to anyone who viewed the photo I loaded earlier, I realised I had uploaded the wrong one. This one gives a better impression of what the estuary looks like.

There are two more pictures from yesterday's walk posted
here.