I have no photos of the beach today because I was going down for a sail, but when we arrived at the beach the wind was too strong , so although Emma and Ralph went for a sail Tim and I simply walked along the shore.
As we were there a canoeist came up to us asking about binoculars, he and his friend had set out a couple of hours earlier, they were ill equipped for the conditions, no life jackets and inadequate waterproofs. The wind and conditions had separated them and the one who had finally made it to shore ...
The sea looked beautiful, but in fact at that moment for those two it was deadly...
The fact that we had gone down to sail, drew us into conversation with a friend who offered to go out in his small rib and act as a rescue boat, in the event he rescued the canoeist who had no energy left and was suffering from hypothermia...
It is at times like that when too many co-incidences come together that you are aware of a something other than the winds and tides at work, and for some reason that day God stepped in to intervene...
