Friday 5 June 2020

Sea kale on the shingle sea shore

Sea kale (Crambe maritima)
Growing high on the shingle shore produces small white flowers in spring. Flowering plants will often be at least 5 years old! Sea kale is  commonly encountered along the south coast of England but can be seen elsewhere around the British Isles.





Thursday 23 April 2020

A changing shore, Norfolk Spring 2020






Its not just our daily lives that have been changing over the last few weeks.... the sandy shore at Hemsby has also been changing from shingle to sand, flat to lagoon......
This shore really shows what a mobile sand habitat can be like!


Depending which day over the last two months you saw this shore you could consider it different biotopes. Really demonstrating that temporal variation should be taken into account when mapping coastal systems.











Sunday 19 April 2020