On the Good Friday spring tides local tradition dictates Scillonians go and harvest molluscs and fish from below the neap-low tide mark. They harvest winkles from St Mary’s, cockels from St Marin’s and whistlers from St Agnes.
The weather has been fantastic, with not much sign of ‘April Showers’, with the odd exception - and today it has turned out to be a great day for enjoying the bank holiday.
The only problem is the tides are preventing the Scillonian carrying on it’s normal operations. Yesterday, when approaching the harbour it announced to it’s passengers that it is a low tide, and they would not be able to get in for a while, so they were going to go ?very slowly’. After a quick circle around St Mary’s Roads, it found it’s way into harbour. Yesterday and today, it set off late to try to avoid the difficulties at low tide.