At Scarborough: Eeeerie haar……x

A fast moving, rolling blanket of mist covers the beach. Its a travelling low lying cloud of tiny droplets of water. Rolling over, covering up everything beneath it. You wonder whether its being conjured up out at sea and it is. Haar or a sea fret to us Yorkshire people is typically formed over the sea and is brought in to the land by wind. It occurs when warmer moist air moves over the relatively cooler North Sea causing the moisture in the air to condense.

Its a little like sitting in a cold steam turkish bath. Perhaps a little eerier than that. Its hard to see more than a few feet. Perhaps for the first time, I saw a defined blanket rolling in on the horizon. Sunshine and blue skies on one side and a block of mist on the next. I think sailors must have other words for this. The lighthouse bellowed out the fog horn giving sailors some audible navigation home. How strange it must be sailing with no visibility. I imagine very eerie indeed….x