…..mainly because Coastwise invited it ! Coastwise invited the Festival to include Heather Buttivant's book "Rock Pool – Extraordinary Encounters Between the Tides", some having been privileged to read it in draft form and been delighted by it. The Festival
The Coastwise Autumn Programme has been finalised, and there's some thing for almost everybody (unless you sit on a sofa all day watching television shopping channels). There's Sea Horses, aliens, desert islands (well, sometimes), remote beaches, museums, geology, lots of
Who knew seaweed-pressing could be so much fun? Clearly many Victorian women did, and it was the growing interest in these collectors that prompted member and seaweed expert Sarah Hotchkiss to lead a special and very successful Coastwise Seaweed Pressing
Coastwise members have for many years carried out the MBA's structured Shore Thing Surveys, contributing to a national database of marine flora and fauna which acts as a baseline for changes. Funding difficulties have paused this process, and a new
Coastwise members braved the fine Easter Sunday traffic and parking problems to visit Ilfracombe's Tunnels Beach for a survey. What better place to spend a holiday Sunday than Tunnels ? Now probably best known as a popular wedding venue, it
It’s a well-worn aphorism that history is written by the victors, but prolific author and historian Dr Todd Gray gave Coastwise members a fascinating insight into the way that inconvenient facts have sometimes been omitted or manipulated to allow a
Robert Irvine, marine consultant with Sea-Scope and long-time expert on the Lundy marine life, talked about monitoring the changes that have come about in the (nearly) 60 years of the Lundy Marine Protedted Area. Pictured R (Courtesy of Robert Irvine)
Coastwise members reviewed the results of the previous day's census at Saunton sands. The hardy Coastwise stormtroopers had hit Saunton beach hard (well, actually quite sensibly, really, and after a briefing on the local geology by resident expert Dr Stan
Beadlet anemones, Actinia equina, so named for their necklace of neon blue ‘beads’ use these to fight and Dr Sarah Lane, a behavioural ecologist with an interest in fighting behaviours, has been studying them – first carefully removing them from
The fate of HMS Montague was not the one intended when she was built…owing to navigational confusion during a communications exercise and thick fog she became grounded on the rocks surrounding Lundy and became – instead of a functioning battleship
