Junior normally keeps a low profile on this blog, but for several years now, he has been taking his own photos and videos of marine life. He recently put together this lovely video for Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Your Shore Beach Rangers project. It showcased alongside other amazing videos by local young people last weekend at the virtual See You at the Sea Festival and he would love to share it with all our Cornish Rock Pools friends.

My favourite part of the video shows something Junior discovered in Looe a couple of months ago: a prawn migration. I was crawling around in waders with my head under a rocky overhang at the time, so I only saw the tail end of the procession as it advanced with the incoming tide. Fortunately, Junior managed to capture some fantastic footage of hundreds of prawns galloping along the seabed, all heading in the same direction in their hunt for food.

Also featured in the video are Junior’s top photographic subjects – the blue-rayed limpet and sea slugs. He’s even coded an animation showing a day in the life of a corkwing wrasse family. We hope you enjoy his work.

Junior’s friend, Rowen, has also created a video for the festival showing her beautiful marine artwork and how she creates it, all accompanied by incredible facts about the animals she draws and paints. She would love you to take a look.

All of the videos are available to view on the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine channel on YouTube. The three with the most likes and views and that catch the judges eye will win prizes this weekend!

I have been writing my new children’s book this year (due to publish spring 2021), but with that nearly ready, I’m looking forward to sharing lots of the fabulous creatures I’ve been seeing in the rock pools over the last few months. Watch this space!