I’ve been trying for some weeks now to apply clay to a structure underneath and face it with flat pebbles in a spiral form. Each time I try it I get beaten by the tide before it is anywhere near finished. To build the structure, and then line it with clay, then collect and face it with pebbles seems to take too long.
I’d decided this time to face a rock that was further up the shore and work just on one rock. Then to let the tide come in and make it into an island. The idea was to create the island so that it appeared to twist out of the water. Again the tide came in much quicker than it had said in the tide tables that I sometimes use.
The making went quite well, but I didn’t complete as much of it as I would have liked. To take this photograph I had to wade into the sea until I was thigh deep in water.
The main time consumer is getting pebbles of the right size and shape. By just giving the impression of the spiral form, this would become quicker.