Hotter than a bath, saltier than the sea, and out of oxygen by teatime. Here are seventeen.
1. It Is the Most Hostile Habitat on the Shore
The instinctive reading…
It watched you first, and it picked you on purpose. Here are eleven.
1. There Is No Such Bird as a Seagull
The word covers several dozen distinct species with…
There is a habit of describing sea organisms using land vocabulary, and it causes a persistent misunderstanding about seaweed.
The words used — root, stem, leaf — describe a land…
Coarse material behaves completely differently from sand under waves - it drains, it rolls, it stacks and it sorts - and almost everything distinctive about a shingle beach follows from…
There is a distinction that changes how a whole category of coastal feature should be thought about, and it comes down to whether something is a population or a structure.…
There is a category of object where the useful part is the absence rather than the substance, and netting is the clearest example.
A net is mostly nothing. The material…