Sunday, 13 April 2014

Rock pooling

So, the Easter holidays are upon us, and we're luck to live not (very) far from Botany Bay, which is a great place for rock pooling.  So we packed up a small net, some tubs, some drinks, a whole load of fruit, put on our wellies and set off.  We also took with us what turned out to be a broken camera, which explains why I only got one shot of this one.


We did, however, have a lovely time, despite not finding a starfish, and only one crab, which turned out to be dead, but mussels, limpets and sea snails galore.  Despite the children protesting because it was a lovely day, we were all very glad to have taken coats and wellies because there was quite a gale down at the coast.

The other lovely thing about Botany Bay is that it is all chalk cliffs, so as a bonus we got to bring home some big old lumps of chalk for drawing on the patio with

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