Fruits from the sea an old tradition.

Sea weed is an everyday miracle with optimum nourishment for the soil. It makes excellent natural fertilizer. We collect it by the bags full to use on the allotment compost, mulching and digging in with the potatoes. It is full of iodine, amino acids, minerals and the full list of vitamins ABCDE+K- what a zest for growing!

It makes a real difference to the way everything grows with all these nutriments and the salt puts the slug off for a while.

It was a tradition on the east coast of Northern Ireland to gather dulse (a type of seaweed) from The Copeland Islands where the sea was particularly pure, dry it in the summer sun and eat it like crisps

The swans

 To-Day we tied the Morning star up for another month as I am returning to sea.The previous blog of my wife Virginia feeding the swans continues with their young signets.Beautiful birds and not a bit shy as they came up to the boat however they would not eat out of my hand but as soon as my wife came on board they came a lot closer and took bread from her hand.

 Full up thank you time and to go! I am away at sea until 25th April when the lobsters and crabs start growing and the season begins in earnest.