2002 Listings

Discovery Walk: Camel Estuary
Organisation: Environment Agency
Tel: 01208 265075
Location of Walk: Through rock sand dunes to Brea Hill
Meeting Place: Quarry car park at end of Rock Road
Start Time: 9:30
Finish: 12:00 ish
Duration: 2.5 hours
Details: Come and see the fantastic Camel Estuary at low tide. Enjoy the views of the coast, dunes and headlands from Brea Hill.. Discover the history, geology and plants of the area.

Discovery Walk: Poltesco, Carleon Cove
Organisation: National Trust
Tel: 01326 291052
Location of Walk: Carleon Cove, Poltesco, near Ruan Minor, The Lizard
Meeting Place: Poltesco car park, between Kennack and Ruan Minor
Start Time: 9:30
Finish: 11:30
Duration: 2 hours
Details: Rockpool Safari - an event for accompanied children. Please wear sensible footwear and have wet weather gear. Walk led by National Trust Warden.

Discovery Walk: Prisk Cove , Rosemullion Head
Organisation: Helford Voluntary Marine Conservation Group
Tel: 01326 241633
Location of Walk: Prisk Cove, Rosemullion Head O.S. Ref: SW 795276
Meeting Place: Mawnan Church car park, Mawnan Smith, near Falmouth O.S. ref: SW 788 275
Start Time: 10am
Finish: 12:00pm
Duration: 2 hours
Details: Rockpool Ramble - Come and explore the secret world of rock pools, from suckerfish to seasquirts. Wear rock scrambling shoes you are prepared to get wet.

Discovery Walk: North Sands, Salcombe
Organisation: Coast & Countryside Service
Tel: 01803 861478
Location of Walk: North Sands, Salcombe
Meeting Place: Entrance to North Sands car park, south of Salcombe
Start Time: 10:30am
Finish: 12:30pm
Duration: 2 hours
Details: Rock pool ramble over some of North Sands' intertidal rocky shore, looking at the colourful community of seashore life that clings to the rocks or shelters within the rock pools of this relatively exposed shore. Aggressive devil crabs, inquisitive blennies, colonial sea-squirts and manicuring shrimps to mane but a few. The walk will cover less than a mile but over some slippery and uneven rocks - so not recommended for dogs or toddlers! Please wear appropriate clothing and wear wellies or expect to get damp.

Discovery Walk: Chesil Beach
Organisation: Chesil Bank and the Fleet Nature Reserve
Tel: 01305 760579
Email: www.warden-chesil-fleet-reserve.fsnet.uk
Location of Walk: Chesil Beach Visitor Centre (O.S. 668 755, Landranger 194)
Meeting Place: Chesil Beach Visitor Centre , Head toward Portland on the Portland beach Road - visitor centre is signed on the right
Start Time: 2:00pm
Finish: 4:00pm
Duration: 2 hours
Details: Practical opportunities to explore the wealth of marine life (molluscs, crustaceans, sea squirts, birds, anemones, sponges) at low tide on the mud flats. Waterproof footwear is recommended as is windproof clothing. Check forecast to help you decide.
Shrimp nets and viewing tides for kids. Main activity is getting out on to the mudflats to look at what's there with the expert guides able to inform and excite. Suitable for all ages.
Glass bottom boat trip is available.

Ecofayre: Portsmouth
Organisation: Portsmouth Friends of the Earth
Tel: 02392 739314
Email: lowtide@portsmouthfoe.org
Location of Walk: Southsea seafront
Meeting Place: Southsea Rowing Club
Start Time: 11am
Finish: 4:30pm
Duration: 5.5 hours
Details: An art activity starts at 11am. Storytelling sessions at 1:15 and 2:15pm . Discovery walk starts at 3:00pm - meet at the Blue Reef Aquarium, Southsea Seafront, this beach walk needs sturdy shoes for walking on rocks.

Discovery Walk: Chichester Harbour
Organisation: Chichester Harbour Conservancy
Tel: 01243 512301
Location of Walk: West Wittering Beach
Meeting Place: By gate at far end of car park (parking fees applies), West Wittering Beach, West Wittering, about 8 miles south of Chichester
Start Time: 3:30pm
Duration: unknown
Details: Join us for a celebration fun walk with activities on the beach. Bring a bucket and spade. In association with the National Trust.

Ecofayre: Brighton, Rottingdean Beach
Organisation: RiverOcean
Tel: 01273 234032
Location of Walk: Rottingdean seafront
Meeting Place: On the seafront about 50 metres west of the WhiteHorse pub
Activity Start time: 12:00am
Finish: 5:00pm
Details: Come and join in rockpooling, stories, games, art activities, and more! Various walks and talks on offer.

Discovery Walk: Seven sisters country Park
Organisation: Sussex Downs Conservation Board
Tel: 01323870280/871070
Location of Walk: Cuckmere Haven, by cliff end
Meeting Place: meet at the beach by cliff end (Haven Brow), Seven Sisters Country Park
Start Time: 4.00pm
Duration: 2hrs
Details: Join the rangers on a search and identify mission in the rockpools beneath the Seven Sisters Cliffs

Ecofayre: Hastings Country Park Water Colour Challenge
Organisation: Hastings Countryside Ranger Service
Tel: For more information contact Hastings Countryside Ranger Service on 01424 813 225 or Julie on 01424 781776
Location of Walk: Hastings Country Park
Meeting Place: To be confirmed
Start Time: 10am registration, 4pm final submissions
Details: we challenge you to capture the stunning beauty of the Country Park on canvas. Prizes will be officially awarded to the winners from 4 categories: Adults; 12 to 17 years; under 12; Hastings Borough Council employees. Winning portraits will be displayed at a chosen location within Hastings town. It's now all up to you, have fun and get painting!

Discovery Walk: Hastings, Shipwreck Heritage Centre
Organisation: Shipwreck Heritage Centre
Tel: 01424 437452
Location of Walk: On the beach Bulverhythe , St.Leonards-on-sea
Meeting Place: Meet on the beach off Bridge Way, St. Leonards on sea
Start Time: 4.30pm
Duration: 1hr
Details: Walk and talk the story of the wreck of the 'Amsterdam' 1749, still visible at extreme low tides

Ecofayre: Romney Marsh, Greatstone Beach
Organisation: Romney Marsh Countryside Project
Tel: 01797367934
Location of Walk: Greatstone Beach
Meeting Place: Greatstone Car Park (opposite Jolly Fishermen pub).
Activity Start time: 2:00pm
Finish: 3:30pm
Details: Seashore Collage. An afternoon of making a shell collage to take home.
Walk Start time: 7:00pm
Finish time: 8:30pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
Details: The Grumpy Shrimper returns yet again. Explore Greatstone beach to find characters who work there. We hope to meet the Grumpy Shrimper again, Dave the Bionic Bait digger, plus any invaders from across the channel. Donations appreciated.
Logos: Romney marsh countryside project and Whole Hog

WHOLE HOG Arts

Discovery Walk: Folkstone, Mill Point
Organisation: White Cliffs Countryside Project
Tel: 01304 241806
Location of Walk: Lower Leas, Mill Point
Meeting Place: Amphitheatre, Lower Leas Coastal Park, Lower Sandgate Road, Folkestone
Activity A short walk to the shore at Mill Point for a spot of rock pooling, have a go at feeding anemones and find finger nipping crabs. Donations appreciated. Leader: Nick Johansen. Distance : 1 mile. Rocky shore walking conditions (Grade 5)
Start time: 5:00pm

Special Event Sunday 26th May

Ecofayre: Dover, Samphire Hoe
Organisation: White Cliffs Countryside Project
Tel: 01304 241806
Location of Walk: Samphire Hoe, off A20 driving out of Dover
Meeting Place: Site Management Office, Samphire Hoe
Activity 1 2 - 6pm Marine Lab: Get a close up view of the marine plants and animals that live in the rock pools or just off shore (courtesy of a local trawler) held in the famous WCCP temporary tanks. Local divers from Invicta Sub Aqua club will also have displays of equipment and games and quizzes including 'What's in the Box', 'Plot the Wreck' and 'Trace a Fish'. If the weather is good they may also collect marine life from the shoreline. Please note: all wildlife will be put back n the sea at the end of the day.
Leader: Melanie Wrigley, WCCP
Activity 2 2pm - 4:30pm Seashore Costume Making Look at the marine wildlife on display in the tanks and transform yourself into a sea creature by making a colourful costume for the procession to the sea,
Leader: Whole Hog Arts Company
Activity 3 6pm Procession to the Sea Wear your pirate costumes and join the procession across Samphire Hoe to the beach and rock pools to release the animals back to the sea. Here we will stop and look for the myriad of life that lives in the rock pools.
Start time: 2:00pm
Finish time:7:00pm

Ecofayre :Mersea island, East mersea
Organisation: Environment Agency
Location of Walk: Cudmore Grove cp, East Mersea, Mersea island, Essex
Meeting Place: Cudmore Grove Visitor Centre
Activity Start time: 10am
Finish: 2pm
Details: join the environment agency for a day of Kite making, face painting, mobile making, bird watching, and guided walks.

The Blackwater Project

Ecofayre: Cromer
Organisation: Norwich School of Art & Design, Anglian Water (Sponsors), Marine Conservation Society, West Anglian Volunteer Ecology Survey
Tel: 01603 610561
Email:carl.r@nsad.ac.uk
Location of Event: Cromer Seafront
Meeting Place: Cromer Seafront
Start Time: 10:am
Finish: 16:00
Duration: 6 hours
Details: The project is a collaboration between students on the Fine Art Course at Norwich School of Art & Design and local conservation. We are designing six postcards, each one having subject matter derived from an object that poses a threat to the coastal ecology. The postcards will be handed out to people on the sea front, with the invitation to send them to friends or family as a 'postcard from the beach'.

London School of Art and design

West Anglian Volunteer Ecology Survey

Ecofayre: Freiston shore
Organisation: RSPB
Tel: 01205 724678
Location of Walk: Freiston shore RSPB nature reserve
Meeting Place: Off A52 Maltoft End, turn right and follow signs for Freiston shore
Activity Start time:10am
Finish: 4pm
Details: A day of family fun on the mud among specially adapted birds, worms, snails and seaweeds. Explore the amazing variety of life on this fascinating new RSPB nature reserve. Activities for children in the Marquee.

The Boston Wash Banks

Ecofayre: Flamborough Head
Organisation: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Tel: 01904 659570
Location of Event: Flamborough Head
Start Time: 10:30
Finish: 3:00
Duration: 4 hours
Details: Rockpooling 10:30 - 12:00, beach walks, cliff top bird watching, bird walks
Cliff top walk at 1:00pm

Ecofayre: Robin Hoods Bay
Contact Name: Keir Brown
Organisation: North York Moors National Park Authority
Tel: 01287 660540
Email: k.brown@northyorkmoors-npa.gov.uk
Location of Event: Old Coastguard Station
Meeting Place: Park at top and walk down to the shore. Meet at the slipway outside the old coastguard station. O.S. ref: SE 053 955
Start Time: 9:00am
Finish: 15:00
Duration: 6 hours
Details: Seashore safari, Treasure Hunt, Quizzes and Puzzles, Badge Making, Sea Water Tanks, Dinosaur Activities, Boat Trips, Touch Tanks, Fossil Foray, Marine Conservation Society Displays, Coastguard Presentation, Guided Walks.
Logos: North York Moors National Park, National Trust, Marine Conservation Society, Coastguard, Dinosaur Coast.

Dinosaur Coast

Discovery Walk: Blackhall Rocks
Organisation: Durham Wildlife Trust
Tel: 0191 5843934
Location of Event :Blackhall Rocks
Meeting Place: Blackhall - from the A1086 ayt Blackhall village, follow the minor road leading east under the railway bridge. Park on the road.
Start Time: 10:30
Finish: 12:30
Duration: 2 hours
Details: Exploring the wildlife of the rockpools, of coastal cliffs at Blackhall Rocks Nature Reserve. Bring wellies if you want to paddle in the rockpools, or old trainers. This is a family event - children welcome.

Ecofayre: St Marys Lighthouse, St Marys island
Organisation: North Tynside Council
Tel: 0191 2008650
Location of Event: St Marys Island, Whitley Bay
Meeting Place: Lighthouse reception
Start Time: 10.30am
Finish: noon
Duration: 2hrs
Details: seashore shenanigans.
Walking over uneven, slippy rocks, Wear strong footwear or wellies. Exposed coast, Wear warm clothes

• 10.30 - 11.30 Rockpool Safari
• 11.30 - 12.00 Aquarium visit
• 12.00 - 12.30 Beach Sand Sculptures
  
  

Discovery Walk: Souter Lighthouse
Organisation: National Trust
Tel: 01915290902
Location of Event : Byers Hole, near Souter Lighthouse
Meeting Place:
Start Time: 8am
Finish: 10am
Duration: 2hrs
Details: Rockpool Ramble. A short walk from Souter lighthouse, Along a path down to the shore, here we cross loose road and onto wave cut platform. A diver will bring back specimens from deeper water

Ecofayre: Morecambe
Organisation: Lancaster City Council
Tel: 01524 582847
Location of Event: Morecambe Seafront
Meeting Place: Victoria Pavilion on Marine Road, Morecambe, near Woolworths
Start Time: 12:30
Finish: 4:30
Duration: 4 hours
Details: Themed crafts: Crabs, Cockles and Corophium from 12:30 - 4:30pm
Brass Rubbings on stone jetty near the café from 1:00 - 4:00pm
The Sunshine stroll guided walk exploring sand and cobbled foreshore. Waterproof clothing may be necessary and sensible footwear recommended. Starts at 2:15 at the Victoria Pavilion.
Logos: RSPB & Leisure Services Lancaster City Council

	Leasure Services

Discovery Walk: Greenacres Holiday Park
Organisation: Bourne Leisure LTD
Tel: 01766 512781
Location of Event : Black Rock Sands beach,Morfa,Bychan,Gwynedd
Meeting Place: At funworks information boardswithin Greenacres complex
Start Time: 10am
Finish: 4pm
Duration: 6hrs
Details: "Beach Tidy",Terrain is flat and sandy,no special footware needed. Day also includes activities such as rockpooling

Greenacres

Ecofayre: Lydstep beach (holiday park)
Organisation: Bourne Leisure and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority
Tel:
Location of Event: Lydstep Beach @ Lydstep beach holiday resort
Meeting Place: A4139 between Tenby and Manobier
Start Time: 10.30am
Finish: 4.30pm
Details:

• Parachute Games @ 10.30am & 4pm
• Rockpool Ramble @ 11am & 1pm
• Beach Treasure Hunt @ 12pm
• Beach Art Competition @ 2pm (judged at 3pm)
• Underwater Food Web Games @ 3.30pm
  
  

Centrally supported by riverOcean , each individual LowTide event is unique, reflecting the interests and skills of the people who put it on, and the specificity of the environment it celebrates. But whatever form the day takes, LowTide is about people sharing the wonder of our coastal, inter-tidal and near shore marine environments.

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