Welcome to Coastwise North Devon

Look below and around the website for Coastwise activities in North Devon which has some of the most spectacular and varied coastal scenery in the country and wonderful seascapes. The coastal and marine life is amongst the richest in the country.

Wild and unspoiled places are interspersed by coastal communities and popular resorts where livelihoods owe much to the coast and sea.

It is the aim of Coastwise, an independent community initiative, to increase understanding of the coast, its wildlife, and its importance to North Devon in the past, present and the future. We do this through sharing knowledge, undertaking conservation activities and projects, and addressing current issues.

There’s lots more, including all the latest pics on Facebook: Link – https://www.facebook.com/groups/563739230330790/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Talks Blogs, some with YouTube links to watch any you missed

Read All About It……..
The Coastwise August 2018 Newsletter is out – a tribute to Paula Ferris' journalistic skills. This has been a busy year and with the help of the AONB's Coastal Creatures Project there have been Shore…
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Bideford’s not all at sea…..it has a well-defined place in marine history !
A local historian gave Coastwise members a comprehensive overview of Bideford’s marine connections, starting with a survey of the estuary with its two ‘pills’, or side valleys. Peter Christie has a long history of civic…
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Micro View….
On Friday Coastwise members attended a microscope workshop, using Ilfracombe Dive Club's excellent clubhouse in Ropery Row.6 It's very convenient for specimen collection on Cheyne Beach, and the covered snooker table makes an excellent surface…
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Like Getting Flood from a Drone…..which is how the Environment Agency maps flood risk.
Simon Dart of the Environment Agency made time out of a busy schedule to give Coastwise members a really interesting overview of flood management in North Devon. A necessary preamble to looking at individual areas…
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Shock Horror…..Gudrun’s from Brum…..and not actually a Valkyress !
Poking around on beaches has been the obsession (her word !) of Gudrun Limbrick, who runs the Beach Stuff blog and website (www.beachstuff.uk). Despite the Scandinavian name, she was brought up in Birmingham by local…
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Fantastic Plastic….Really ?
On 9 November Imogen Napper gave us an outstanding talk entitled Fantastic Plastic? about plastic pollution in the sea, particularly microplastics. . As a PhD student in Professor Richard Thompsons’ Plymouth University research team she…
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