COASTAL areas across the county experienced high tides at the weekend.
The Environment Agency issued flood alerts for several locations.
On Sunday morning, Essex Police and the coastguard team were stationed on the Strood during the high water period to make sure people did not get into trouble by trying to cross.
Readers have sent in pictures of high tides at Brightlingsea and Tollesbury.
The Met Office said: “We see two periods of spring and neap tides roughly every month.
“However, there is a longer cycle at work too, associated with the gravitational pull of the planets in the solar system.
“This means we can see additional, albeit relatively small, increases and decreases in the size of spring and neap tides over long periods of time.
“We are at the height of those increases, so the astronomical tide is at an 18-year peak, although this is only a few centimetres higher than a more average spring tide.”
The extra large tides are commonly referred to as super.
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