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We’ll be sharing different aspects of learning, events and research as we go along. Please do get in touch if you want to respond or share an aspect of your knowledge.
Exe Trail Plankton Mural
Exe Trail plankton mural near Lympstone Back just before lockdown Tidelines worked with the Exe Estuary Managment Partnership to deliver a workshop at Lymsptone primary school. The kids looked at images of plankton and tiny creatures from the oceans and used a variety...
Alive Alive 0!
ALIVE ALIVE O! Calling the Blue Mussel The mussel beds in the Exe are now badly depleted and many are wondering how we can restore the natural habitats of the Estuary. Adult mussels cannot move, but their larvae disperse through the water and can travel. Many species...
The Salmon Run Day
The SALMON RUN DAY 8 relay sections, 7 changeover locations, 9 ceremonial invocations, many dates slices, several pubs by several lovely bridges, 74 runners and 50 miles over fields and down roads up and down hills and by the river, the salmon (Samantha) was passed...
Salmon Run
Salmon Run Salmon Run Sunday 25 September 2022Run with the salmon! The Atlantic salmon is a keystone species, an indicator of the health of our waters. The story of the salmon also tells us about climate change and changing water temperatures in seas and...
The Incredible Salmon
The Amazing Exe Salmon Salmon mean a lot to people for their amazing journeys, their waterfall leaping skills, their size and their appearance in our iconic rivers. They have a place in the mythology of our culture as heroic creatures and sources of wisdom. And they...
Singing the Sea & Alive Alive O!
Singing the Sea & Alive Alive O! Image: Plymouth University 2nd year Illustration students - Tidelines project Two projects connected by sound. Sound is different under the water. Water can carry sounds far further than air. What sounds can we hear? What...
Maps and Tides at Marpool School, Exmouth
Tides and Maps at Marpool School How does the tide work? What shape is the eastuary? How does a map work? Who is it for? We explored such questions as these in 2 days of workshops with one class from Marpool school, one day on location by the estuary making...
To find the Exe tides reach
Finding Tides Reach Exeter (by canoe, paddle board and motor vessel) Where does the tide reach in Exeter on a high tide? How does this affect Exeter, its inhabitants and the creatures that live in and move through these waters now, in the past and what about the...
Where Has Our Sand Gone?
Where has our sand gone? The short answer is in the above illustration. But it is a bit more complicated! RED is Loss, BLUE is Gain. First a big thank you to The Plymouth Coastal Observatory who have provided these images and recorded this data. We have been in...
Body of Water: water quality creative lab
Body of Water: a water quality workshop day Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water.―...
Wider Than The Sea
What if the locals advised the visitors about their estuary? How to enjoy the place from an insiders view? And how to respect it in order to preserve it? ‘Wider than a river’ is a collection of generously shared thoughts and reflections from people who live...
Pop Up: Starcross and Topsham
Pop Up Exhibition at Starcross and Topsham We had a great two days sharing ideas, thoughts and artworks from the Exe Box and online activities in Starcross and Topsham over the weekend. Participation and interest exceeded our expectations and we enjoyed hearing...
Galleries for Exe Box and online activities
Tidelines Community Online GalleriesMaps, thoughts, diary entries and photos submitted as part of the ExeEstuary Box and online. Mapping the Exe Personal maps of the estuary Questions from the Exe Estuary Things we would like to know Exe Home Screen Phone framed...
Lympstone to Exmouth Part 7 of Jon Seal’s 7 part film.
Film 7 of 7: Lympstone to Exmouth https://youtu.be/eosDNNUuc2o Jon's 7th film completes the circle almost to it's starting point. For the final part of the journey, the stone makes its way from Lympstone to Orcombe Point. It passes through the estuary on to the wide...
Illustration students and the estuary
Two groups of Illustration students from Pymouth University have been working with Tidelines on a project exploring how to draw greater attention to the diversity of life in the Exe estuary and the estuary as a living system. We had a series of online...
High Water: Tides, Climate, Oceans and The Exe estuary
HIGH WATER EVENT: 30 March 2021 Sarah Cameron Sunde Tidelines partnered with Art-earth and Low Carbon Devon to run the High Water event where 60 artists and scientists and others from all round the Uk and the world talked about their work and relation to the oceans,...
Big Thanks You to boxers!
Thank you so much to everyone around the estuary who has responded to the Exe estuary box challenge and returned boxes to us! We are so grateful for the time you have taken to share your maps, your questions, your thoughts and your creativity all about the estuary...
Birds on the Exe tide line
Matt Knot writes about the birds he sees on the Exe estuary and surrounding area on his website: http://gobirdingexmouth.blogspot.com/. Here you can find out not just about the birds but also much more besides including moths, butterflies and wildflowers. His...
Reading Water
We've been talking for a while with Naomi about her ideas to create a project around the HMS Terror and its history and how its stories finds resonances today weaving into climate narratives and stories that connect us through the oceans to other parts of the world....
High Water March 30, Free event tickets now from Eventbrite
High Water: sharing our connections to the tides Tuesday March 30, from 08.45 - 22.00 BST/UTC, online Over 50 people are sharing stories about the sea and in particular the high tide connecting Exmouth to others around the UK and the world. There will be readings,...
Exeter – a tidal city
M5 bridge. Andy Thatcher Exeter - a tidal city. The tide sneaks in and out of Exeter. To catch it, you have to be around the Exe between Trew's Weir and the Medieval bridge at Bridge Road, and pay close attention. A high tide can spill amongst the pylons through...
The Last Salmon Boat
The Last Salmon Boat by Lesley Kerman The Last Salmon Boat For almost fifty years I could look out of my kitchen window and watch the salmon fishermen casting their net in the River below. In rain, in sun, by day and night the rhythmic sound of their boat being...
The Map Room
This is a a gallery of maps submitted as part of the Mapping the Exe invitation or from the Exe Estuary Box. Please draw your own and upload them to me and I will put them on the gallery. Maps can be anything. It is about how you experience the Exe estuary or...
Tidelines Around the Exe Estuary: A new film in 7 parts
Around the Exe – a series of short films. Around the Exe is a series of short films which attempt to capture images and sound from Dawlish Warren to Exeter and back down to Exmouth. Every two weeks a new film will be added and a kind of journey around this remarkable...
The Exe Estuary Box
https://youtu.be/ZiG5Fhd2atY Welcome to the Exe Estuary Box! What is it?The Exe estuary box is a place to share thoughts, experiences, ideas and questions on the Exe estuary and coastline, in your own time, from your own home. You could do these activities on...
More about the Exe Box…
Lots of people are now doing the Exe box around the estuary which is great! Here is some help with the activities if you need it. Adults this box is very much for you*. We know it is a bit different. As estuary residents your knowledge and experience of the estuary is...
Exmouth’s Estuary: by local Photographer Danielle Gibson
In January of this year, I had the opportunity to complete my first ever completely self-directed body of work for my University degree in Photography. No strict themes, no given tasks, no group work, just me and a camera capturing what fascinated me and continued to...
The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson – Summer Reading Project
About these Events People around the Exe Estuary have been taking part in our summer read of Rachel Carson's remarkable book The Sea Around Us, in partnership with Devon Libraries and Libraries Unlimited. We chose this book for our Tidelines summer read because it...
What we want to know about…Changing Sea Temperatures
This image shows the bathymetry (undersea topography) of the North West European Shelf Seas (NWS), the seas around the UK (including the English Channel and the North, Celtic and Irish Seas).The European continental tectonic plate extends below the sea surface over a...
Salmon Run sound file
The Sea Around Us Rachel Carson
Love a good read? Love the sea? Tidelines invites you to take part in an Exe estuary-wide summer read of Rachel Carson’s book The Sea Around Us working with Devon Libraries and Libraries Unlimited. “Reading it will ensure that you never look at the sea in the same way...
CITiZAN Tidelines seminar/presentation
We were invited to present Tidelines as part of the CITiZAN webinar programme. CITiZAN is the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, a community archaeology project working in the areas of England exposed at low tide but covered at high tide, areas at...
Future Goose Gallery
The Future Goose We asked people to write their thoughts about the estuary in the future, how it might be changing, what people might like to see and perhaps their concerns.We are all nature. Please keep it clean & natural for birds, fish and humanity.Jenny...
My encounters with flora at the tide’s reach. Part 1.
We invited Heath Nickels a wildlife and wildflower enthusiast to write a blog about flora at the tide's reach after a walk we made between Exton and the mouth of the Clyst. Tidelines is very much about valuing all our experiences and knowledge of the Exe whether you...
My encounters with flora at the tide’s reach. Part 2.
Exton to the Mouth of the Clyst We parked bikes at Exton Station, and walked back under the railway line which is passable at most times of the tide other than high tide, out northwards onto the Estuary. The walled railway embankment exhibited some typical estuarine...
The Almanac begins..
Things you notice epic or ordinary can be logged into The Alamanac via the website Almanac page. This a long term project and can grow over a number of years like a diary. It will create a picture of the estuary and how it is changing. You can enter almanac notes from...
What I would like to know. Our questions
Questions are now being asked! You can find them here. As I explore the estuary and around I find myself with more and more questions about how it all works and I imagine many of us share the same questions. For example I don't know what happens and how it shows when...
Night Fish
Looking for eels we found fish. Lots! We filmed at twilight on a new moon – eels swim into brooks and rivers at big tides in April which can be around new or full moon.
Links and Connections
Please find some links to interesting resources and websites all about the Exe. There are so many different ways to look at the Exe Estuary and this is a growing list so please do send us any recommendations. We are of course not responsible for any content on these...
Our photos online now
People have started contributing photos of the estuary or coastline and you can see them now in the online gallery. Hopefully this will inspire more people to send in more photos to make a diverse view of the Exe. Although many photos focus on the horizon, there is no...
Lovely Map. See the changes.
My cousin Simon sent me this link to a map of South West England smoothly superimposed on the present google view. It is fun to play by toggling the fade button at the top to see what was then and what is now. Railway yes, colonies = the Marsh. No Imperial ground....
Dust of the Sea
We decided to try and make salt and headed to the far point of Exmouth beach at Orcombe Point to collected sea water. Far out to the point, the bit where the mudstone rock pools and a steep edge into the sea to dip our containers. ON KNOWING HOW CLEAN Collecting water...
Bull Hill, Shelley Bank, Cockle Sand
Recognise this? Harbour on the right, Dawlish Warren on the left. This is the start of a 3d model of the estuary I have been making up at the Mens Shed in Exmouth. You can see the harbour. But why do the tides not cross between Bull Hill and Cockle Sands and cut a...
A series of public events!
A series of events starting in Summer 2020 will explore estuary and coastline by combining science and arts. Expect unusual locations and activities and a mix of discussion and expert information looking at the Exe with new eyes!
Royal Geographical
In pursuit of all things estuarine I went to a conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London where there were some examples of engagement involving artists. I also found this amazing mural by Toni Llobet from Barcelona of the tide before and after. It really...
And there is more..
You are invited to join in, get creative with a number of other Tidelines activities and projects.
Exe Home screen
Got a phone? Send in your photos of a slice of the Exe taken in vertical 'home screen' format. Get creative with your photos taken around the estuary or seafront on your phone. The estuary and coastline is usually horizontal as water meets land meets sky. But it looks...
Tidelines Community Almanac
Tidelines Community AlmanacWHO CAN TAKE PART?Everyone is invited to take part in the Almanac. If you are dog walker, if you come and sit in your car on the sea front, if you are a kite surfer or jogger, if you come to the beach with your family every now and then, if...
Things I’d like to know
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW?Do Starfish respond to the cycles of the moon? What volume of water comes in and out of the Exe estuary every day? What are the little rows of upside-down V shaped boxes out on the mud flats?There are loads of things we are curious about:...
Mapping the Exe
WHAT IS A MAP? You are invited to draw a map of the Exe Estuary. Your map could include the mouth of the estuary from Exmouth up to Topsham, or further, or you could only involve a small area of the estuary or coastline. A map can take many forms and maps can look...
Letters to the Sea
What do you feel, reflect on, dream about, wonder as you spend time by or think about the sea and the estuary? "Listen very carefully and you will hear the sea in your body" Yoko Ono, from Seven Little Stories Letters to the Sea invites you to get a piece of paper or...
