Posted by goltz@goltz.pl on October 15, 2007 at 20:03:11 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Blue water posted by Peter H on October 15, 2007 at 18:51:47:
Why is the Channel not 'blue water'?
The English Channel, or La Manche as it's called over here, is on its good days a greenish grey. The rest of the time it's just grey. What with the sewage [oops, I wasn't going to mention downstream plumbing again], industrial effluent, ship's bilge rinsing, spillages from oil tankers, radioactive waste from La Hague, nitrate rich run off from the rivers that flow into, it it's amazing that anything that swims in it lives to tell the tale. To man's best efforts, nature adds a fine suspension of sand and mud from various sandbanks, mudbanks and other hazards to navigation. As John Nichols so succinctly puts it,
the channel is not blue water under any stretch of the imagination.