One couple raking for clams took the easy way, by boat to beach it on a sand bank beyond Seymour Tower, but for everyone else it was the traditional route out by foot.
The high pressure currently dominating the British weather and the easterly wind pushing the water out of the Gulf of St Malo may have stopped last night’s high tide from being the biggest since 2008, but it delivered just what low-water fishermen wanted, one of the lowest tides in 20 years.
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After climbing the Karamé rock, 1.7 miles off the Grouville coast, Islander Roy Everitt had the added bonus of spending last night at Seymour Tower with friends, in the company of Jersey Heritage guide Martin Viney.
‘This is the first time I have been out to Seymour Tower and to do it on one of the lowest tides in living memory is something really special,’ he said.
Jersey-born Suzanne Le Quesne, on holiday from her home in Spain, was overwhelmed by the sheer expanse of the marine landscape.
‘It is amazing, there is nothing else like it in the world,’ she said.
‘I don’t like to use the word but it is awesome and very special.’
She was in a party led by walking guide Derek Hairon, who was hoping the tide would drop to the lowest point in 40 years.
But the combination of high pressure and a strong easterly wind kept it at the predicted one-foot mark.
Almost 12 hours later, at 3.06 am today, the tide dropped to one of the lowest levels ever recorded – 8 cm above datum.
Last night’s high tide may have fallen below forecast but at the tower the east wind whipped it up to crash against the door, preventing Mr Viney’s party from accessing the platform.
They had to climb to the top to enjoy the spectacle of the bay bathed in the light of a harvest moon.
