Woken by the sounds of fog.

[capnsensible]

Here in Gibraltar, a light easterly wind brings warm, moist air across the Alboran sea, where it meets the cold incoming Atlantic current. Fog results.

The bay off Gib is where shipping never sleeps, so the early morning fog bought the mellow sounds of Bunker Barges plying their trade and big ships gliding off to sea.

How nice to be able to roll over, pull up the duvet and back to snooze!

 

[RobbieW]

When in the UK I used to live beside Southampton Water. I would often be woken by the early ferries in Autumn and Spring sounding thier foghorns in the morning mists - quite comforting really. Sometimes also by the passing rumble of an early RedJet.

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Old days, old days

When in the UK I used to live beside Southampton Water. I would often be woken by the early ferries in Autumn and Spring sounding thier foghorns in the morning mists - quite comforting really. Sometimes also by the passing rumble of an early RedJet.

When I was a child, we could hear them on the Thames in the Pool and downstream in thick fog where we lived. Evocative and soulful, and then the wind whistling in the marram grass on the Estuary shores later on, no wonder I came to use the sea.

 

[boaterbaz]

Used to live near souter point lighthouse. Quite common for summer fogs in the northeast to roll in. Noisey s*d but very reasssuring to hear.

 

[Romeo]

Noisiest night I can recall was when camping in Quebec. We had the St Lawrence seaway on one side, with foghorns sounding, and a railway beside us with a series of open level crossings at each one of which the freight trains, which went on all night, would sound a bell.