Crossing the Causeway at Night
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Date: January 28 2014
Location: Lindisfarne Causeway
Category: Site
By night the causeway crossing easily assumes anxious and sinister overtones, despite absolute certainty that the tides should be favourable. The endless pitch black sky bleeds imperceptibly into unseen billions of gallons of North Sea somewhere out there; and when it’s stormy and choppy waves loom in peripheral vision, a claustrophobic thought wonders if it might be out to get you. But it can also be exhilarating, as screaming gulls and piping waders stream through the headlight glare and horizontal precipitation rattles off the windscreen. Yet your continued movement, even through inches of encroaching seawater, assures you that there is stable, if invisible, ground beneath to carry you through the tunnel to the other side.