I went down to Sandbanks at around 7pm this evening parking on the
road opposite the Sandacres pub. There must have been around a one
metre wide fringe of slushy ice along the water line stretching for
several hundred yards along the beach. In fact the pub landlord was
scooping some of the slush up and taking it indoors as his regulars
would not believe the sea was partially frozen. The water is quite
shallow on the Poole Harbour facing beach at Sandbanks for quite a way
out so it's hardly surprising this phenomenum occurred. There's been
a similar situation just along the coast at Arne where again there is
some shallow water. If it gets much colder we'll be walking to
Brownsea Island next!