With the grandkids

Should we go rock pooling now, or wait?

Grandparents & the grandkids · Salcombe, Devon
The type
Grandparents with the grandkids

They’ve got the little ones for the day and a plan that never fails: nets, a bucket, and an afternoon hunting crabs in the pools at Salcombe. The only catch is the one that catches everyone out.

Rock pooling with nets and a bucket
Why it comes down to the tide

Rock pools only appear as the water pulls back, and the best of them sit out where the sea has just left. Turn up at high water and there’s nothing to find; time it for low and the grandkids get a clear couple of hours.

What Shore Check tells them
“Going out · low in 90 min.” Nets in the car — the pools are about to open up.
The signals that answer it
DirectionComing in or going out
CountdownTime to the next high or low
SALCOMBE DEVON · LOW TIDE
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