Taken on 3 January 2014, this photograph is looking approximately northeast along the Morecambe Bay shoreline at Bardsea when the tide is at its maximum height.  Conditions such as these are rare and require the combination of a high tide, a nearby area of deep low atmospheric pressure, and accompanying strong winds.  The rough water has loosened a great deal of sea weed and this has been blown ashore by the severe southerly gale.  The area of breaking water seen in the distance is the location for the following photographs in this series.