Some knowledge can’t be downloaded.There aren’t many jobs left where the weather gets the final say.On the Fal, it still does.Here, fishermen working the native oyster fishery tow their dredges without engines. Instead, they work under sail or oar, relying on wind, tide, their boats and a detailed knowledge of the water beneath them. No engine.No shortcut around a still morning.Just a very old relationship between people and place.And perhaps that’s what makes it so interesting.Knowing somewhereThere’s a difference between visiting a place and knowing it.Spend enough time around the sea and you start noticing things.Which wind works where.What the tide is doing without looking at your phone.Where the water behaves differently around a headland.When conditions that look promising probably...
Summer’s Over. The Good Bit Isn’t.September packs up.The evenings disappear a little earlier. The beach cafés start shortening their hours. And you find yourself wondering whether that jumper you left in the car sometime around April is still there.Cornwall gets a little quieter. Good.Because this might be when we like it most. The coast after summerThere’s something different about the coast once autumn arrives.The beaches empty. The mornings get cooler. The Atlantic starts looking a little less inviting to anyone who doesn’t own a wetsuit.But it doesn’t feel like an ending.If anything, it feels like we’re getting the place back.There are still days when the sun appears and briefly convinces everyone it’s August again. And there are others when you...
We spend a lot of time staring at the waves.Checking the swell. Watching sets roll towards the beach. Looking for somewhere to paddle out. Or simply standing there for a few minutes watching the sea do its thing.But occasionally it’s worth looking down.Because twice a day, as the tide retreats around Cornwall, another version of the coastline appears.Rockpools. Gullies. Seaweed-covered rocks. Tiny pockets of water temporarily cut off from the sea.And a surprising amount of life.The world between the tidesIt’s easy to think of the shoreline as the bit you cross on your way to the water.But the intertidal zone, the stretch of coast covered at high tide and exposed again as the water retreats, is a habitat in its...
Most surfers spend a fair amount of time hoping for fewer people on their wave...This Saturday in Newquay, the aim is exactly the opposite.On 19 September 2026, Earthwave comes to Great Western Beach with one brilliantly simple challenge: can more than 110 surfers ride the same wave at the same time?It sounds slightly ridiculous....Which is probably part of the appeal.The 110 figure comes from an Earthwave record set in South Africa in 2009, when 110 surfers were recorded riding the same wave simultaneously.This weekend, Newquay gets its chance to go one better.More than a record attempt....Earthwave describes the event around three simple ideas:One Ocean. One Community. One Wave.And looking at what’s planned, that feels pretty accurate.Alongside the record attempt, Great...
A night at the movies and wasn’t it one to remember. On the 9th February we had the pleasure of attending and sponsoring a local film event run by Gone Coastal Events
