Following from last blog have found that the thorn bush binding the coastal sand-dunes south of Cleethorpes Leisure Centre is called sea buckthorn. The picture above, showing just one branch, is taken from Phillips, R. Wild Flowers of Britain (Pan Books, 1977, 35). It is a native shrub found on sand-dunes (usually planted to ‘fix’ the sand in place rather than self-sown) and sea cliffs, particularly common along east coast. It flowers April-June and produces little orange berry fruits in September.
If just the word wave is Googled it comes-up with lots of detailed sites about what might be termed ‘physics waves’ rather than sea ones, indeed the Wilipaedia site for ‘waves’ doesn’t refer to them. A wave is a ‘disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space’, which sort of applies to seaside waves as well. There are lots of non-seaside waves; sound,infrared, light, gravitational, quantum, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma etc., and apparently a more correct term for ‘seaside waves’ is wind-waves, an element of ‘fluid dynamics’. The BBC’s Bitesize revision guides for G.C.S.E. can be a useful source of reference and here ‘seaside waves’ are covered in the Coasts section of the Geography syllabus, in the section Coastal Processes. Our sympathies go out to all those candidates currently revising, usually coincides with the onset of good weather.
Incidentally a ‘wave platform’ relates to the creation of a ‘multi-currency wallet’ in economics – now that really is of no interest.
The sound of gentle waves ‘breaking’ on the shore is often used in self-healing, relaxation and alternative medicine techniques, why should this be so?
(To be continued).