Category: Beach life
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Portobello Beach Life 🐚
Portobello Beach, Edinburgh – you may think about the beach life being the wild swimming, dog walking and late night BBQs, but this site is dedicated to the marine life and ecological health of the beach. Portobello Beach Life will feature, in no particular order, aside from Sewage being central to it all, the following:…
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Hermit Crabs
I found this lovely little Hermit Crab in a Rockpool eating Seaweed, you can clearly see the Crab feeding here: Hermit Crab feeding on Seaweed And this Large Hermit Crab was maybe trying to get back to the sea after Storm Babet. Storm Babet washed up quite a few interesting things. Large Hermit Crab
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Razor Clam Destruction
This one is close to my heart, at low tide you can see the huge squirt-jets of water out of the sand where they live in their burrows. They belong in their burrows and they are happy there. You only get to see them alive if you are a Razor Clam “harvester”. I say “harvester”…
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Sewage
I tend to split Portobello Beach into two zones – the North Beach (the beach north of the Figgate Burn) and the South Beach (the beach south of that) The top of the North Beach is home to the Seafield Waste Water Treatment Works (aka Sewage Plant) – Scotland’s largest. When the tide is out…
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Bullhead
Also known as Rockfish or Sea Scorpion, I found a few of these at the top of the North Beach. They were dropped onto the sand probably by bored seagulls or crows. Bullhead A strange looking fish which I tried to rescue: Left on the sand … And back to the sea …