On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:13:40 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:
>Padraig Breathnach wrote:
>
>> Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
>>
>> >> My friend and I went to Lindisfarne Island at the weekend.
>> >> Whilst we were there we were musing about where else
>> >> there are tidal causeways that you need to drive over.
>> >> I can think of a few that you walk over to reach the 'island':
>> >> St Michael's Mount, Burgh Island etc, but are there any
>> >> others that need to be driven to over a tidal causeway?
>> >
>> >I doubt there is any in the world that *needs* to be driven to ...
>>
>> There is an imaginable circumstance: if the distance is too great to
>> walk in the timeframe allowed by low tide.
>
>It's imaginable, but is there one? Meaning, a place that people tend to
>go to see?
>
>Jack's post reminded me that last time I walked to Hilbre Islands on the
>Wirral there were a few morons in the distance chucking up the sand with
>their 4x4s.
>
>It was an amazing Spring day, a bit blustery but sunny, whipping up the
>sand. A lot of people had the same idea and at one point we turned
>around, and you could see dozens of people walking towards us (well
>Hilbre)- Oscar said it was surreal, like something out of a movie! :)
Have you walked out to Lindisfarne?
--
Martin
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