Along the strandline, newest first
Shore logs
Each log was written the evening after a morning on the rocks, then revised when a later walk showed I had something wrong. Species names are given only where I am confident of them.
- Sea glass 1
- Drift 1
- Identification 1
- Conditions 1
- June2026Summer shore
Sea glass
Sea glass on granite and limestone: frosting, colours and what stays
Why sea glass looks different on the Maresme sand and in the Garraf coves, what the colours tell you, how long frosting takes, and the rules I keep about taking it home.
- January2026Storm and calm season
Drift
After the east wind: what a winter storm leaves along the strandline
Walking the Maresme and Garraf the morning after an easterly storm: seagrass banks, fibre balls, cuttlebones, by-the-wind sailors, and the rubbish that arrives with them.
- July2025Summer shore
Identification
Anemones and urchins, and learning to look without lifting a stone
Telling the common anemones and the two urchins of the Catalan shallows apart by eye, and the habits that let me watch a pool for half an hour without disturbing it.
- March2025Storm and calm season
Conditions
Reading a sea with almost no tide: when the pools show themselves
Why the moon matters less than the barometer on this coast, how wind and pressure lower the water by a hand's width, and how I choose which mornings to go out.