@@ododargo spent all my summers there in the 70s and up to mid 80s. The prom, the paddling pool, the boating pool, the outdoor swimming pool, putting greens, tennis courts, playground with a huge rocking horse, ice cream from the cafe, the train tracks and the quaint station. The duck pond. The bombed out house. Not much left now. I’ll never forget it 😌
Happened to me a long time ago in Ireland. Was out on a high spot looking at crabs under rocks with a friend. Turned round and surrounded knee deep and fast rushing in. Legged it and made it back up rocks. Close call
I'm a regular visitor/camper at Silverdale and I'm amazed that there aren't any signs posted warning of the tides. If I'm ever down at the beaches and see kids or teenagers I always warn them. They must think I'm a crazy old geezer 🤷🏼♂️
My Dad taught me to sail at MHYC and 50 years ago I was the ' fastest catamaran on the Bay . Very good training as I went on to a career in teaching Outdoor Ed. then sailed most way round the world on catamarans. Don't like Somali pirates ,so thats that for me. All inspired by that patch of water. You HAVE to respect it and be very well organised. Inspiring tho, for sure ..... Ta much for the vid !
Beware the estuary Boar.....nearly had my cousin and his mates Angling at Priory point over the Gully,many years ago now?....they were made to run for their very lives and they lost all their fishing gear to the Sands?Always respect the Briney?🌊🎣🎯🎣🧐👌😎👍👍👍🤙✌
I was once on a remote beach in New Zealand and was walking on the dry sand and was around 400 metres from the water and as I started taking pictures the water had rushed in to my waust line and came from nowhere and was fighting for my life as I was a weak swimmer and spent 10 minutes bein carried away in the current.I survived that day but never will I drop my guard or underestimate the sea.
The Bristol Channel can also be very dodgy. The mud flats at Weston catches loads f people out, especially during the summer months. The Uphill end of Weston is treacherous, as well as the Knightstone end. Every year the life boat hover craft has to go out and dig people out who get stuck. The tide comes in pretty quick and the mud/ sand turns into concrete around your body. Not a good place to be.
In South San Fransisco bay we have a lot of mud flats and on some days you can go out onto levies (some days they are closed due to weather) and see the tide sweep in. sometimes when it is really windy it happens very fast, and it is very choppy looking, other times it is still and it just kinda creeps to the shore.
Can English ppl not swim? Every video I see that tides comes in quick says it’s extreme danger when you could easily swim to shore. Not like it’s sucking you out.
I used to play along that stretch in the 60’s as a child, usually on my own or with my sister , Great fun 👍🏻, Dad was never far away (working) when I think back now 🙈😆
Me too! We grew up in Bolton-Le- Sands and used to deliberately get stuck up to over our knees in the sinking sand and get told off by the 6”4’ Policeman pulling us out. He used to take his kids and us depending on tides obviously. I drove home from work along morecambe prom the night of the cockle pickers. So sad.
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Good video. I have been trying to find a respectful video of the Memorial for the Chinese Cocklers. I am sure many people in China would like to see a video of this.
In the background you can see the remains of the causeway at Jenny browns point, My parents lived across the moss at Crag foot, they saw the rescue effort going on for the chinese cockle pickers with the searchlights from the lifeboats & helicopter. Whoever sent them out there murdered them. Winter at night in a gale it is a deadly place.
@@marialee627 Noooo,,,Im tawking about the fekkin fukkin liar who put up this video. Killer tide,,,what the fuck is he on about,,,that tide is about as dangerous as my fekkin paddling pool
I remember when I was a young(er) man, about 8 of us walked out at Silverdale as the tide was ebbing. The current looked really fast so we linked arms as one of us edged out into the flow to feel the power of the current... you could go out up to your belly button before the tide became too strong and started pushing you backwards and off your feet, and this was as you were leaning as far forwards as you could. It was an incredibly stupid thing to do as notthing would have saved you lif you lost your grip. You'd have been out in Morcambe Bay and probably dead by the time the helo/lifeboat found you.
All tides have an approximate 12hour cycle. So a high tide at 6am means a low at 12pm and another high at 6pm and another low at midnight.. Here the tide starts to flow 3 hours before reaching High Tide. So you have to know your tides at any given location. What is mud flats at one point will soon be 5 to 10metres under water once the tide starts moving.
This is crazy and awesome beautiful at the same time. I've seen something similar but at a beach in Mexico we actually walked through the quick sands thinking there was no danger and luckily we made it back to the shore safely. But looking at this and thinking back on it, it wasn't safe at all.
so slow? it completely submerged the whole area in 2 minutes. if you were standing 2 miles out it might take you half an hour to walk back to safety... so how are you going to walk that far in 2 minutes...
