Rock pooling in Sidmouth

Sidmouth has its own small beach garden, showcasing the plants which grow on the shoreline:
Futures Forum: Biodiversity in Sidmouth: Beach Garden
Futures Forum: "Will the Sidmouth Beach Garden be trashed to make room for beach huts?"

Sidmouth is famous for its rock pools:

Sarah Adams Painting - Part 2

With a lot of tips available on-line:
Great for rock pooling - Picture of Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth - TripAdvisor
Jacobs Ladder Beach (Sidmouth) | Devon | UK Beach Guide
Visitor information for Sidmouth - Town Beach | Sidmouth | Devon | British Beaches
Sidmouth - Jacobs Ladder Beach, quite simply a stunning place

A couple of years ago, Springwatch was in Sidmouth by the sea:
BBC - Nature UK: Strange creatures of the sea: Your sightings

And last year, rock pools were featured in Sidmouth Science Week:
Sidmouth Science Festival - Hands-on and Exhibitions at Kennaway House

This week on Radio 4, there has been a regular slot looking at coastal wildlife - and in the first programme on Monday, it looked at rock pooling:

Rock Pools

A Guide to Coastal WildlifeEpisode 1 of 5

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What looks a sponge, smells like a volcano and is found in rock pools? 

Well, the answer can be found in the first of a new series of five programmes in which Brett Westwood joins naturalist Phil Gates on the coast of Northumberland and with the help of recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, they offer a practical and entertaining guide to the wildlife which you're most likely to see and hear in different coastal habitats beginning with probably everyone's favourite childhood haunt, the rock pool. 

These are home to shore crabs and hermit crabs, as well as sea anemones, breadcrumb sponges and sea squirts. 

We learn how sea squirts which appear to be little more than bags of fluid clinging to the rocks might be our evolutionary ancestors, we hear how a school teacher invented glass shells to study the reproduction and subsequently house-moving antics of hermit crabs, and discover how when it comes to building, it's the breadcrumb sponges which have mastered the art with some clever self- assembly scaffolding tricks!

Producer Sarah Blunt.

BBC Radio 4 - A Guide to Coastal Wildlife, Rock Pools
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