Jersey Walk Adventures

Les Ecrehous guided walks dates added

derek — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:34:34 +0000

Travel over by charter boat with inside seating and explore this remarkable island. Spend up to 5 hours ashore with an experienced Bronze badge guide.

Details and dates.

The “little rascal” Large Necklace Shell (Euspira catena)

derek — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:33:46 +0000

Necklace Shell

February is the time to find the Large Necklace Shell’s large egg ribbons in the sandy gullies near Little Seymour and Seymour Tower. These large molluscs grow up to 3 cm and look a bit like a garden snail.

They lay their eggs in collar like ribbons consisting of sand, mucus and eggs. (The smaller egg ribbons of the Alder Necklace Shell resemble flat sand spirals.)

Forget all the nice images of marine wildlife.

The first Necklace shell hatchlings feed on the eggs surrounding them. Once fully grown their appetite switches to eating bivalves, e.g. cockles, which they dig up from the seabed.

First they soften the shell chemically and then drill a neat hole near the hinge to get inside. The cockle is paralysed and killed – and will open up, full of fine food … Life on the seabed!

Drillholes made by a Necklace Shell

Cooking with seaweed- Dulse

derek — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:24:22 +0000

Freshly picked Dulse

It was mainly Prannie Rhatigan’s fascinating modern cookery book “Irish Seaweed Kitchen“ which got us going. The receipes are just too tempting. So we thought let’s start with something easy and tasty – dulse (known to the marine biologists as Palmaria palmata), found in the mid intertidal zone.

Scissors are our new equipment, when heading for the beach!

We found some lovely dark purple dulse off La Rocque Harbour halfway to Seymour Tower. Close to its holdfast was some beautiful frosted seamat growing, a stunning colony of minute moss animals. Those we left behind, as you should only take part of the fronds, in this case we cut them lengthwise, so the plant can regenerate.

Dulse after drying

After quickly rinsing the dulse at home, we spread it on grease proof paper on a tray from the oven and let it dry for a day in the sunny conservatory. To get it really crispy we then placed the tray overnight on the kitchen radiator. The last step: store in an air-tight jar or in sealed bags.

Crumbled up, dulse is a lovely condiment, but you can also use it fresh, cut in small pieces in vegetable soup. Delicious.

Our next experiment will be using it in home made bread.

January-September “Moon walk” dates added

derek — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:59:42 +0000

Guided walks in Jersey on the sea bed. January-September walks are now listed on the dates page.

January-April 2012 guided walks in Jersey

derek — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:06:50 +0000

New year and January to April 2012 ‘Moonwalk’ dates added to Seymour and Icho towers.

Walks on the seabed-Dates

November guided walks in Jersey

derek — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:25:36 +0000

We have added guided walks to Seymour tower in November.

See the walk dates page.

Private booking on other dates are possible. Call to discuss.

Extra bio-luminescence walk added

derek — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:48:50 +0000

Saurday 22 October at 2100

Details

Half term walks added

derek — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:46:07 +0000

Tuesday 25 & 26 October. Family walks to Seymour tower at 1030 and 1100.

Details

Big low tides in Jersey this week

derek — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:47:01 +0000

Jersey has some of the biggest tide ranges in the world.This week (27-30/9) rise and falls of up to 11.3m are predicted.

Join our guided walks on the seabed to discover a hidden world.

Dates

New video to Karame beacon

derek — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:20:53 +0000

Walk to the end of Jersey. New video of our guided ‘Moonwalk’ to Karame beacon almost 2 miles from shore.

Our next walk to Karame is on Sept 28

2 towers Sept 29