Visit to Hoylake and Parkgate for High Tide : 5th December 2013
We had high hopes for a visit to Hoylake and Parkgate for a 9.9 metre high tide (12.24pm at Liverpool) that wasn’t really a birding group date but several of the group had planned to go there. Unfortunately the combination of low pressure, high tide and gale-force westerly winds led to this at New Brighton.
New Brighton at High Tide
The situation wasn’t much better at Hoylake and at Parkgate the water came right up to the promenade and the old baths car park was under water half an hour before high tide ! A truck was blown over on the motorway and crushed two cars so we probably made the correct decision to stay at home and try later in the week when the gales had calmed down a bit.