Foreshore is a quiet record of first light, the turning tide, and what crosses the shallows. Color is rare — warm for the moment that matters, cool for the thing you point to.
Every day on the foreshore is bracketed by light. The warm moments — first and last — bloom; the cool middle is when the tide turns. The same warm-to-cool line runs through every screen.
The melon well rises. You mark the time the sun clears the meridian and log what's already moving on the shallows.
Azure marks the precise minute of high water — the cool cue, the exact thing you point to before the ebb begins.
A final warm reading closes the log. The day's strata are sealed and the station rests until the next dawn.
Foreshore never draws a grey line to divide things. Sections, cards and the active tab are separated by a meridian — a thin gradient where warm dawn meets cool dusk, with a soft bloom above it.
It is the only structural mark in the whole language. Where you'd expect an outline, you get a line of light instead.
The current reading warms; everything else stays cool and quiet. No dense grid, no rainbow — just the day's crossings, in order.
| Time | Station | Reading | Tide | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05:14 | Brindle Cove | First light — 14 plover working the wrack | Slack high | +3 |
| 07:02 | North Spit | Wrack survey, 42m transect | Ebbing | −1 |
| 11:40 | Brindle Cove | Seal haul-out, six on the bar | Slack low | +2 |
| 16:18 | Long Reach | Curlew passage, 30+ heading SW | Flooding | +5 |
"I used to scribble first light on the back of a chart. Now the whole season reads like one long tide."
Set up a station, point it at your stretch of coast, and start logging the day from the waterline up.