Tides are crucial to everything that we do here at Real Staithes, be it aboard our Charter Angling boat ‘All My Sons’ or a day on the foreshore hunting for fossils or foraging for your lunch. You can listen to Sean talking to Kevin Rushby of The Guardian about tides here… We run our ‘low tide experience’ days on spring tides, these occur about every 14 days, so what this actually means is we can […]
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Goldcrest
It’s not just us humans who get disorientated in this foggy weather we are experiencing here on the coastal edge of the North York Moors National Park, it’s the wild life too. Sean’s just phoned from sea, he’s got lots of goldcrests taking a rest on board his boat ‘All My Sons‘. One of them is actually in the cabin with him. Goldcrest, regulus regulus, are actually the smallest bird in the UK along with […]
Read MoreHoly Mackerel…! Fishing and Foraging off the coast of North Yorkshire…
Here’s the video we mentioned in a previous blog post, it was filmed in August 2013 together with Martin Dunford (Cool Places), Josh Sutton (Guy Rope Gourmet) and Jules Brown (North York Moors National Park & Cool Places) and a film crew (Audere TV). Hope you enjoy it… If you are interested in learning about catching and cooking your own mackerel supper details about our trips can be found here… and Josh’s drawing of Sean’s […]
Read MoreStarling murmurations and a film for Visit England…
What an earth do “Starling murmurations and a film for Visit England….” have in common…? I hear you ask… well follow this, if you can…:) While checking out on Facebook what the relatives in Australia have been up to (believe me… you really don’t want to know…!) I found a link to a film by Sophie and Liberty. It’s a “short film that follows the journey of two girls in a canoe on the River […]
Read MoreLots & lots of activity at sea this morning…
Summer has finally settled into it’s normal pattern, thank goodness, not only can we see it in the grass verges along the road side and in the hedges, fields and woodlands but out at sea as well. Sean’s first phone call was to tell me about the Minke Whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata that he and today’s fishing party are watching. Minke Whales travel great distances from their breeding & calving grounds in the tropics to their […]
Read MoreSean’s way to gut a mackerel…
When Sean is not at sea or on the foreshore he’s a ‘silver surfer’… he came across an article written by Josh Sutton otherwise known as ‘guyropegourmet’… we contacted Josh as we really liked the drawing he’d done of Sean’s way to gut a mackerel…. so here it is… Want to learn how to gut a mackerel Sean’s way..? then join us this summer aboard Sean’s boat ‘All My Sons’ for our new course […]
Read MoreStunning photo…
Sean had a local bird watcher / photographer on one of his fishing trips…though you might like to see one the photos… So if anyone is interested in photograhic trips on Sean’s boat ‘All My Sons’ do get in touch…
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