The Secrets of the Silent Tide

Book excerpt: You can find Burry Inlet on the south coast of Wales. It looks most beautiful from the water. At least, that's what Mr. Morgan was thinking as he sat in the stern sheets of his boat with a fishing line in his hand and watched his son Phoenix drift slowly across the calm water. In fact, on this beautiful autumn evening, the idea would have made a man less easily swayed by patriotism than Mr. Maverick. To make a large body of water, the port opens up when the tide is high. This body of water goes out into the land about ten miles to the east. To the north is the county of Carmarthen, and to the south is the Gower Peninsula. Even though the beaches are flat, there are round hills in the middle of the land that make the landscape look like it's rolling. The gray and yellow sand dunes along the shore are very different from the green fields and forests further inland.