1. +1.42 m, Slack high water: For twenty minutes the sea does nothing at all

    The flat is under a metre and a half of it. Nothing here suggests there is a floor.

  2. +1.05 m, First bar: The outer bar breaks the surface

    A back of wet sand, then a second one behind it. The swell starts to trip on them.

  3. +0.68 m, Draining: The channel finds the course it always takes

    Water leaves the flat the way it arrived, along one meander and its feeder.

  4. +0.30 m, Ripple marks: The floor turns out to have been corrugated the whole time

    Ripples set by the last flood, held under water for six hours, now catching a low sun.

  5. −0.05 m, Cut off: Some of the sea does not get away

    The hollows keep what they were holding. Each pool is now its own small tide, going nowhere.

  6. −0.42 m, Low water: Everything the tide had is showing

    In six hours it comes back over this in the same order, bar last, channel first.

Tide

ns-ui / ebb-flat

The pin releases here, with the page in its hand

The flat is a fixed field and the water level is the only thing the scroll touches, so scrolling back floods it in exactly the order it drained. Nothing latches on the way out.

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