As I went for a walk at sunrise this morning, my eye caught the sunlight shining on the seaweed that hung from the groin at low tide. Fucus serratus or more commonly known as The Toothed Wrack, it is usually harvested for cosmetics or seaweed baths but can also be used to make tea or Japanese noodle soup.
Another thing I discovered recently was the joy of rock pooling. It was something I hadn't done since I was a child when we would visit the seaside for a day trip or our annual summer holiday. I could spend hours staring ignorantly at the creatures and seaweed in the pools but with no book or expert to identify them for me, I remained totally ignorant until I found myself on a guided walk last weekend to Horse Ledge near Luccombe on the Isle
of Wight, one of the best places on the island for rock pools.
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| Fucus serratus The Toothed Wrack Seaweed |
