Stinking piles of seaweed being thrown up on the beach. Subsequent deliveries of the salty odour were continually churned up and drying and smelling in the hot sun.

Every type of seaweed is here, sea lettuce, gut weed, bladder wrack, flat wrack, thong weed, sea belt and furbelows and lots more…

A cormorant perches on the beach marker, watching the water and preening itself, even it knows not to enter the sea-soup.

I will take the lead from the expert and just watch the emerald water farther out…longingly..