| This weekend's spring tides might help scour out the bank of sand and restore a semblance of tidal passage. |
| Try to plan your trips around the smaller neaps, but experiment with the medium to big spring tides. |
| They'll feed during the biggest spring tides and the smallest neaps. |
| Conversely, when the moon is at apogee, its farthest point from the earth, even spring tides are diminished. |
| So we have spring tides regularly once a fortnight, with neap tides in between. |
| Six were washed ashore in a gale and pieces are still visible on very low spring tides. |
