Sealife

The basking shark is Britain’s largest fish, growing up to 11 metres long and weighing up to seven tonnes - about the size and weight of a double-decker bus!

Cuttlefish are relatives of squid and octopuses. They are predators, living out in water up to 200 metres deep but coming into shallow, weedy waters to breed.

Hermit crabs live inside the empty shells of snail-like animals, particularly whelks and periwinkles.

A beautiful starfish, usually orangey in colour with bands of paler yellow and richer red on the legs. Covered with small spines.

The bottlenose dolphin is a large stocky dolphin around 2.5-3.0m in length. They have a large sickle shaped fin and they can leap right out of the water.

The common dolphin is also known as the short-beaked common dolphin and is one of the smallest of the dolphins, measuring 2.1 - 2.4 metres in length.

The Jewel anemone is a beautiful sea creature with spectacular colours varying from bright green, red, orange, pink and white and has a smooth column.

The killer whale (Orcinus orca) or orca, is a very striking creature, black on the back and sides with its white belly extending as a rear pointing lobe up the flanks. It has a conspicuous white oval patch above and behind the eye, and a grey saddle on the back just behind the fin.

The long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas), is a medium-sized whale, with a bulbous forehead and a short, almost imperceptible beak.

This jellyfish is transparent and grows up to 40cm wide. It is shaped like an umbrella and has short hair-like tentacles around the edges, and four rings towards centre.

The Short-snouted Seahorse has its name because it has a head shaped like a horse and it has a short nose that is slightly upturned.

Tompot Blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) a medium-sized elongated, large-headed, large-eyed fish found in crevices amongst rocks below the low tide line.