The sea

The sea is like glass today. The sea is very calm today.

There’s fog on the sea / out at sea.

I see a shower coming (in from the west.) The sun is shining here but it’s raining on the island. (in Caherciveen).

It’s dry here but it’s raining over there (in Ventry).

There was a full moon last night and so there’s a high tide / a spring tide.

There was a new moon last night and so there’s a neap tide.

The tide was in at seven o’clock this morning.

The tide is out at the moment.

The tide left a line of seaweed / a high water mark well up on the shore.

The tide left a high water mark well up on the stony beach.

The tide left a high water mark well up on the shingle.

The tide left the seaweed well up on the sandy beach.

There are big waves today.

The sea is turbulent.

There are white horses on the sea today.

There will be bad weather later on.

The seagulls have come in to shelter.

There will be a storm.

I saw a cormorant standing on a rock drying its wings.

I saw terns and guillemots.

The terns are/were calling out to each other.

The waves are breaking on the rocks west of the harbour, (the quay).

The waves are breaking on the rocks east of the bay, (east of the islands).

The waves are breaking south of the inlet.

The waves are breaking north of the sound, (north of Inis Tuaisceart).

There is foam on the sea.

I was down at the rock pools yesterday.

There are lots of shellfish down there.

I saw a crab, a hermit crab, shrimps, periwinkles, sea-anenomes, barnacles, limpets and whelks.

There were mussels by the stream.

I saw lots of seaweed growing from the quay wall.

There was channel wrack, flat wrack, bladder wrack and knotted wrack.

I burst the bladders on the bladder wrack and on the knotted wrack.

You find knotted wrack on the shore or on a stony beach.

You find strapwrack on the shore or on a stony beach.

You find carrageen (on the rocks) on a sandy beach.

You find dulse on the lower end of the shore.

You set lobster pots on/near the seabed (on a part covered in seaweed).

I found a sea rod (I took a sea rod from the kelp).

We were digging for lugworms yesterday.

I saw lugworm mounds when I was walking on the beach.

I found a dead sea-urchin that still had its spikes.

I found the shell of a sea-urchin.

I found a dried-out starfish.

I got these shells on the beach yesterday. Here’s a scallop shell, a cockle shell, a turret shell, a razor clam shell, a dog whelk shell.

The fishermen are on their way home.

I can see the seagulls following the boat.

We will have fish for dinner. (Wrasse, mackerel, cod, salmon, pollock, haddock, whiting, trout.)