A glorious sunny June day and a dozen Coastwise members took a 3 hour stroll around Crow, a long time to go a short distance but there was much to see and say.

Crow Point is one of those estuary mouth spits of sand whose significance, like its own 200 hundred year life, has fluctuated.  The visit allowed members to share their knowledge of its history and natural history in the light of challenges such as climate change, dune conservation proposals, and proposed  wind-farm developments.

.............not to start a Limerick, but  the latest of our annual visits to other shores.  

At Jay Nicholson's invitation Heather Buttivant organised a  long weekend visit for us in April, to Hannafore (R, top) and the lovely Talland Bay (R, 2nd and 3rd from top) which we all thoroughly enjoyed.

Coastwise cameras were in action at Lee Bay last week  as we geared up for a summer season of surveys.  A dozen of us equipped with the cameras to be used were set the task of refreshing our skills by finding and photographing a dozen target species.

The clarity of the photos we take during our surveys is an important element in the data we submit to the Wildlife Trusts’ Shoresearch database, and this provided an opportunity for us to improve.