Rockpooling

An excellent afternoon's fun was had by me, twinkletoes and MightyShark at Osmington beach. We ate our picnic lunch sitting on a rock, spectating life in the nearest tidal pool. And then spent several hours delving into various other rockpools and looking under stones. There were plenty of crabs of various sorts, including the somewhat scary-looking Hairy Porcelain Crab. Only somewhat scary, because he was barely bigger than a 10p. Many shrimps and small fish were caught - and then returned to their pools. And we met a man off the telly who was harvesting seaweed and who told us how to make vegetarian pannacotta using carrageen. Hmm. Maybe we'll try harvesting some carrageen on our next visit...