Train to Arnside from Liverpool Lime Street on the Thursday, Kent viaduct, though closed for engineering work, the men in orange hi-vis jackets, along with their digger stood out when viewed from the village waterside. Tide when I arrived racing out. Two nights at Arnside YHA. Friday cloudy but mainly dry. Short walk south along the estuary sketching. Didn't go too far, given the timing of the tides, path being close to, or bit below the high water mark. Knew the tides here and all round Morecambe Bay need big respect. A tide table, thankfully by the pier at Arnside. Just after noon, the coastguard siren sounded, "nobody sleeps here". Then again about half an hour later. Within minutes of the second one, the flood tide was racing in. In the afternoon, took to higher ground on Arnside Knott. Superb view from there along the estuary to Morecambe Bay and west to the Lake District Fells as far as Skiddaw.
