Tuesday 18th September 2001 – 8.34am
Thick high cloud to the east today, blocking out the sun and turning Black Combe into a charcoal mass; its contours hidden in the shadow, even as it sits high and clear in the view. There is almost no wind, perhaps just a tiny occasional flutter from the east. In the Channel, all but a few of the boats are stranded on the Channel sides or aground and reflected in the shallow water, though the tide is beginning to turn and move back in.