On Sunday we enjoyed a gloriously sunny and hot day on the beach at Woolacombe. Lots of others did aswell, but it's a big beach and there's plenty of room. I can only stand sitting/lying/sleeping on a beach for so long though, and inbetween ferrying kids to and from the sea I spent some time pottering about the rock pools. No idea what I'm looking at in the main, but enjoyable nonetheless. I did find a couple of small fish and shrimps but with no net it was impossible to catch them for a shot. Here's far too many photos interspersed with one or two beach/sea themed tracks.
Bladder Wrack Spiral Wrack!
A feeding Beadlet Anemone
Beadlet Anemone out of water
Acorn Barnacles
Common Limpet
This is like a big coastal woodlouse, known as a Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica) - this one was about an inch long, which is not the biggest!
Blue Mussels
Presume this is a cockle shell
Dog Whelk
Found this Dog Whelk with odd pink bits stuck to it ...
..then found a load of the pink bits which I think are Dog Whelk eggs
More random shots from Cornwall - this time a few bits from the beach and dunes. Again these were taken with the new versatile Lumix - telephoto shots one minute, macro shots the next.
The marram grass dunes were littered with thousands of tiny snail shells - some typically rounded and lots that were conical shaped. All appeared to be empty, and most were bleached white. No idea what species they are.
The beach had some really great tidal pools, and the undercliff was littered with small caves. Loads of common tidal molluscs, barnacles and anemones ..
