It’s been a while since I posted – thank you for bearing with me. I have so many rock pool adventures to share. I hope you will love this rosy feather star as much as I did. “Do you see man...
https://cornishrockpools.com/2023/01/30/wishing-on-a-rosy-feather-star/
As anyone who takes notice of the natural world knows, nothing stays the same. I visit my local beaches around East Looe so frequently that I know every rock and every pool. Yet, the more time I ...
https://cornishrockpools.com/2022/06/13/rock-pool-highlights-in-looe/
It’s not exactly tropical, but we’re as far south as you can go on the UK mainland. The sun is shining and the clear water gives us a perfect view into the pools. After a morning of geologica...
The empty shells of sea potatoes, masked crabs, swimming crabs, razor clams and limpets fill my arms, along with a rather battered piece of seaweed. We haven’t reached the rock pools yet, but t...
https://cornishrockpools.com/2022/06/07/beach-explorers-at-filey-literature-festival/
No matter how many times I go rock pooling, something always takes me by surprise. It helps that I’m constantly awestruck by simple things: the blue flash of a kingfisher zipping over the pools...
https://cornishrockpools.com/2021/12/30/its-conger-time-low-tide-rock-pooling-surprises/
As you may have noticed, blog writing has been relegated to my ‘to do dreckly’ list for a couple of months now. In September, I unexpectedly started a job that I didn’t know I’d applied f...
https://cornishrockpools.com/2021/12/27/christmas-rock-pool-catch-up/
After the summer rush, Cornwall is starting to breathe again. Our usual autumn trip to Brittany was cancelled months ago, but we’re making up for that with an exotic adventure to visit friends ...
https://cornishrockpools.com/2021/10/13/wonderful-worms-and-other-squidgy-things-at-prisk-cove/
I know there are good reasons not to meet people you only know from the internet, but I often do. It has been brilliant every time because people who love the rock pools are the best! When an onl...
https://cornishrockpools.com/2021/09/12/a-summer-splash-with-a-new-friend/
When my son was younger he thought he saw a kraken. I returned from releasing a crab after an event for the local Cub pack to find him and a friend staring out over the sea, shading their eyes to...
The sun is back and, for once, it has coincided with some big tides. Beach shoes at the ready, Junior and I scramble across the rocks, the clamour of the busy beaches far behind us, heading for o...