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
The ecology of bryozoans is not an obvious immediate attention-grabber, but Mark Ward of Somerset Wildlife Trust devoted five years of his life to it. Mark is now in the world of community outreach, based on the Somerset coast and
Maybe this should have been titled: What we could find on the Shore if we were as amazing at finding creatures as Jan…especially highly camouflaged creatures that look exactly like the seaweed they are on and are only up to
