No signal. This is the last sheet the phone saved — tide, weather, and the wall reading from that fetch.

Walpole Bay · Margate

Conditions

plate v1 of the conditions notebook

Observation

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Anonymous, structured, no photos and no free text. The required four are what calibrate the wall: what you saw, roughly when, where in the pool, and how it felt.

Wall staterequired

Walls fully exposedPool-as-pool. You can see the wall standing clear.Water near the topClose to the overflow, or spilling but not the short waterfall.Overspilling — waterfallThe tide is coming over the wall.Walls coveredThe sea has gone over. Walls submerged.

Roughly whenrequired

Just nowIn the last 15–30 minutesEarlier today

Where in the poolrequired

Landward endThe open beach side, no wall.Middle of the poolSeaward wallThe outer wall, where it overflows.

Overall feelrequired

Glassy and invitingChoppy, but swimmableRough — think twiceMurky or unpleasantToo wild, stayed out

Water temperatureoptional

BitingColdFreshMildWarm, for here

Windoptional

StillA breezeWindyHard to stand in

Water clarityoptional

Clear to the floorA bit cloudyMurkyCould not tell

Crowdoptional

EmptyA few peopleBusyPacked

Wildlifeoptional

Nothing notedBirdsFishJellyfishOther marine life

Would you swim again?optional

YesMaybeNot today

Key to the marks

coral line — now
open band — walls exposed
hatch — water near the top
coral — magic waterfall time
solid — walls covered

51.39292°N, 1.40422°E · CT9. One site. English only.

Walpole Bay Conditions — a placeholder name for a notebook about one pool. Swim at your own risk.

Skin: Tributary, shared by Kem at Glitch Cat Club. The notebook look is his design; this page only borrows it. About the sheet, the sources, and the credit.

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