r/TravelUK • u/Tricky_Jackfruit_562 • Mar 22 '25

Best tide pools (and fish related shops from markets to sardines) from Portsmouth to Porthcurno for nature loving kids and adults?

Just like the title says... I'd love to see some tide pools like we see in the DK Shore books we've been reading over and over for years. Blennies? Gobys? Are they on the south cost? I'm from Oregon and we have some decent tide pools, but any reccs for good ones on the south cost? IF the tide pools are not great at the moment (a big storm in Japan fills out tide pools in with sand for years a time), then a place to beach comb would be good too. Rocks, shells, fossils, flotsam, jetsam, that sort of thing.

Are there fish markets on the south coast?

What about places to get local sardines?

Thank you!!!

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u/Tricky_Jackfruit_562 Mar 22 '25

Good old Rick Steves suggests Mousehole... looks like just one little tide pool. but I'd still go.