Fish boxes on the harbour at Eyemouth stamped with the names of ports from the various fishing nations of the North Sea. Some hours from now and they may well be teeming with the orange-pink shells of nephrops norvegicus. Predominantly male nephrops, venturing out from the silt to feed at dawn or dusk, are trapped […]
Category Archives: The Sea
Just over a month since hatching and the cygnets are gaining confidence and growing to look more like the parents with longer necks and bigger bodies.
Mechanical monsters have invaded the quiet waters of Eyemouth to scour the harbour floor. Oozing black mud and sea water, the detritus of the last three years is hauled up and deposited on the waiting Shearwater, the flat bottomed boat which dumps each load into the North Sea. These workhorses dwarf everything else in the harbour, labouring both day […]
The end of week two and sadly one of the cygnets appears to have perished. Tales that the little one was ‘away to the vets to mend a broken leg’ gave some hope, but this now seems unlikely. On a positive note, the remaining seven are thriving and are often to be seen in the […]
The last of the cygnets to hatch remains in the safety of the nest. Eight cygnets hatched successfully over a period of two days……and not an ugly duckling in sight! Six of the cygnets, those which hatched first, are quick to learn the behaviour of the adult, swimming and foraging in the bank for food. […]
On the other side of the world from Middle Earth are these wonderful geological formations on the coastline of south east Scotland. If you want to get a closer look, you could take a trip on the Rib with its skipper, Tim. Fast or slow. You choose the pace.
As part of the Follow the Herring Project, the play “Get up and tie your fingers”by Ann Coburn is touring venues down the coast from Musselburgh to Hastings. Built around the Eyemouth fishing disaster of 14 October 1881 in which 189 men died, the story is one of grief and loss, but also of courage […]
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