Thursday 5 March 2015

Rockpooling Destination: Great Yarmouth, December 2014

During the winter months a strandline forms along many of the sandy shingle shores of Norfolk.

Many different things can be found washed up among the strandline including the remains of seaweeds, sponges, hornwrack, hydrozoans, crabs and shells.


The shore at Great Yarmouth is comprised of sand and shingle, a succession of strand lines mark the varying tide heights.Habitat classification: LS.LSa.St (Strandline) and LS.LSa (Littoral sand).



A tree weed washed up on the shore.


A tree weed washed up on the shore.



A tree weed washed up on the shore.



Osmundea sp growing as an epiphyte of Egg wrack (Ascophyllim nodosum).



Osmundea sp growing as an epiphyte of Egg wrack.


Osmundea sp growing as an epiphyte of Egg wrack.


Crinkle edge weed.


A small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) egg case.



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