Bliss by Harry Bliss for April 25, 2022

Is the Moon in the first or third quarter?

The dog looking cool with his shades on!

What other choice do you have?

such great detail, even to the individual fronds on the palm branches.

♫♪ An-tic-i-pa-tion ♪♫

Gonna be waiting a while.

I can’t sit still that long.

The first time in my life that I heard the word ‘Neap’.

This comic seems imply that ebb and neap are opposites of or compliments to each other. They are not.

Ebb means the tide is going out (from high tide to low tide). In most areas that have tides, the tides ebb and flow (rise and fall) approximately 2 times per day. All tides (including neap tides) have ebb and flow to them.

Neap tide refers to the times (twice each month) when the difference between high tide and low tide is the least – the high tides are at their lowest (do not get very high) and the low tides are at their highest (do not get very low). This happens at approximately the quarter moon phases when the sun and moon are pulling on the earth at right angles to each other.

Twice each month, at Full Moon and New Moon Phases the sun, moon, and earth are aligned and the sun and moon’s pull on the earth’s water is “magnified” and you get the highest high tides and the lowest low tides. These are referred to as Spring Tides.

an alternative to watching grass grow

Better wait a little higher up the beach…

Love it! Beautiful artwork as always here. Great idea, too. Just stay there forever.

Neap!

I just love these guys!

when do the tide pods come in…?

That’s my pipe-dream.

Not the knights who go “neap” (apologies to Monty Python).

And now I hear the Righteous Brothers singing….