Hannah continues: “The clarity and turquoise colour in west Cornwall compared to say the North Sea or Bristol Channel is also because of the heavy sand particles which sit on the seabed, and lack of sediment swirling around in the water column.”
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Clear blue waters for cooling off in the Cornish summerCarbis Bay is blessed with its own unique microclimate and some of the cleanest, clearest waters in the UK.
The Weddell Sea has been claimed by scientists to have the clearest waters of any ocean in the world. Described by a historian as “the most wretched and dismal region on earth”, due to the flash freezes that caught Shackleton's ship, its clarity is only belied by the sheer depth of the ocean below.
And Cornwall's lack of major rivers is also a contributing factor. Hannah explains: “We have no major rivers to bring down lots of mud and silt, and it has been a very dry spring which has meant the streams are not washing mud into our bays and beaches.
Clear blue waters for cooling off in the Cornish summerCarbis Bay is blessed with its own unique microclimate and some of the cleanest, clearest waters in the UK.