Picture teaser

Thought I would add just one picture, until I sit down to do a longer blog post.  10 days ago the tide rose to one of the highest points anyone has ever seen in Raxó, it was really fascinating and exciting to see it like that.  Evidently it was the result of several days of very heavy rainfall (though by the point of these photos, as you'll notice, it was a beautiful day), and heavy winds out on the ocean.  If you look at a detailed map Raxó is on estuary in Galicia, so ordinarily we don't get heavy waves or anything like that in this town, you have to travel about 20 minutes to a coastal beach to find that.

I ended up taking over 250 pictures of this high tide, but here below is just one view of how high the tide rose.  Every beach in the entire town was totally swallowed by water!  In all the years I've been here, good weather or bad, I've never seen anything quite like it.  Compare it to the sunrise photo I added at the beginning of the month, and you'll notice how deep the coast usually is (granted that was taken at lower tide, but neither was it at the lowest point of the day).  Notice the water on the street, which splashed cars and pedestrians who were not careful.  I'll post better photos later but this one will show you the water breaking over the generally-secure street border.