Holy Island tourists 'driving into North Sea'

[dipsydoodle]

A lifeboat volunteer says it is "quite bizarre" that tourists continue to try to drive on a tidal causeway outside safe crossing times.

It follows the rescue of an Australian couple who became stranded on the Holy Island causeway, off Northumberland.

That rescue was the eighth Seahouses RNLI crew has carried out this year.

Ian Clayton, from the Seahouses station said: "It's incredible that people seem to think they can drive their cars into the North Sea."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-13830017

Reminds me of halfwits who think they know better than the tide tables down where the River Cuckmere runs into the English Channel in Sussex. There is an average time that it takes to walk along the beach at the bottom of the Seven Sisters to reach the next break at Burling Gap or thereafter Eastbourne. Get the timing wrong and you are screwn.

[oldironside]

1. Or people trusting their satnavs...

... when all good sense says otherwise.

[fedsron2us]

2. My personal favourite is the car park in Bosham West Sussex on the tidal shore

Tourists always leave their vehicles there, pop into the nearby pub for a drink and a meal before returning to find the tide has come in leaving their beloved motor underwater