Longshore Vagabond

 Pounding surf, relentless in its anger and its rage. Unstoppable as waves slam into ever weathering rock; hardened igneous teeth revealed, all laid bare in jagged defiance.

 Swabbling 'club' of juvenile Yellow-legged Gull. Fighting over the floating remains of an unidentifable bloated carcass; relentlessly washing back and forth on the constantly shifting strand.

 Tired symbolic grasshopper falters on laboured wings. Out of its environment and out of chancers luck; momentum lost to crushing water and the future washed away.

 Flashing flanks of silver show mastery of a cold, alien world. Apex predators corralling 'bait'; as the labrax ambush both the unwary and the panicked. Destiny played out on a fast ebbing tide...

 Cockle fishers bend their backs on early low tide. Raking and sifting through sediment and knee deep water. Each alone, but each watching the other.

 Away from the disturbance; 'winter-white' Sanderling whirl in vivid flocks. Glinting high above the estuary, they alight to where gentle ripples lap golden sand.

 Below the stone breakers, hundreds of 'jack-in-the-box' fiddler crabs emerge from their burrows. One heavy footfall and the extended colony drops back to safety. A scene constantly repeated.

 Picking through the exposed eel grass, a lone Greenshank works its 'patch'. Discovery releases a sharp 'tu tu tu', and the ever distant wing-beats merge with the increasing morning haze...

 Fossilised shells entombed in tumbled rock; scattered beneath crumbling cliff-face, weathered by time and circumstance.

 Common Sandpiper 'bob' in slow filling gullies. Dank; sticky, mud, inextricably covered by an almost imperceptible, but unstoppable evening tide.

 Ridiculous 'show pony' Greater Flamingo hide their heads in shame. All ostentatious pink tones and shocking red wing-coverts. Parody beyond belief.

 Bluethroat flit between low scrub and salt-crusted rush; crossing brackish channels, time and time again. Fleeting glimpses of ruffled colouring in fast fading light.

 Activity under parting surface film as the twice-a-day world comes to life. Regular scatterings of miniscule fishes as the 'robalo' patrol their watery domain...