Between the Tides

2/10/2024

British actor Stephen Murray creatively narrates this rather interesting short glimpse of the huge variety of life that exists on the beaches and in the rocks that surround the United Kingdom. Limpets, barnacles, whelks and sponges all cling to surfaces as the anemones, prawns, crabs and fish run the gauntlet of the eat and be eaten routine that constitutes daily life. The lobster - "a blue somnambulist perambulating on stilts" mixes with an whole slew of shellfish that seem to defy the laws of physics and gravity as they filter food from the seeming nothingness of the salty water. Then there's the weed - a great expanse of leaves and tendrils. Gulls and oystercatchers scavenge the sands looking for hermit crabs or razor clams that using the most innovative of periscope arrangements to see