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Salmon Run 2023

Salmon Run 2023

SALMON RUN 2023 In one day, World Rivers Day, runners aged from 3 (on pushbike) to 72 took on a variety of challenges to empathise with the epic journey of the Atlantic salmon against the flow up the river Exe to the spawning grounds on Exmoor following the Exe Valley...

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Run Salmon Run 2023

Run Salmon Run 2023

RUN SALMON RUN 2023 !! Run Watch Cheer!If you want to run in the 5k, cheer the runners on the route or turn up for activities at Salmon Pool in Exeter see below: Very rough relay timings (approximate apart from start!)Start at Exmouth 8am (arrive to run 7.30)Salmon...

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Sea Temperature Part I

Sea Temperature Part I

We are delighted to share this blog post from Louise which weaves together threads of felt experience, citizen science, craft and care around the increasingly critical story of sea temperature. Jon Tinker from the Met Office who co-faciliated an online event with us:...

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Exe Trail Plankton Mural

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...

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Alive Alive 0!

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...

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The Salmon Run Day

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...

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Singing the Sea & Alive Alive O!

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...

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High Water: Tides, Climate, Oceans and The Exe estuary

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,...

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Maps and Tides at Marpool School, Exmouth

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...

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To find the Exe tides reach

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...

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Where Has Our Sand Gone?

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...

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Body of Water: water quality creative lab

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.―...

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Wider Than The Sea

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...

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Pop Up: Starcross and Topsham

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...

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The Incredible Salmon

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...

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Galleries for Exe Box and online activities

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...

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Lympstone to Exmouth Part 7 of Jon Seal’s 7 part film.

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...

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Illustration students and the estuary

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...

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Big Thanks You to boxers!

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...

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Birds on the Exe tide line

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...

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Reading Water

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....

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High Water March 30, Free event tickets now from Eventbrite

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,...

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Exeter – a tidal city

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...

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The Last Salmon Boat

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...

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The Map Room

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...

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Tidelines Around the Exe Estuary: A new film in 7 parts

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...

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The Exe Estuary Box

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...

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More about the Exe Box…

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...

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Exmouth’s Estuary: by local Photographer Danielle Gibson

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...

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The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson – Summer Reading Project

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...

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What we want to know about…Changing Sea Temperatures

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...

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The Sea Around Us Rachel Carson

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...

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CITiZAN Tidelines seminar/presentation

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...

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Future Goose Gallery

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...

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My encounters with flora at the tide’s reach. Part 1.

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...

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My encounters with flora at the tide’s reach. Part 2.

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...

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The Almanac begins..

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...

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What I would like to know. Our questions

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...

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Night Fish

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.

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Links and Connections

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...

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Our photos online now

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...

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Lovely Map. See the changes.

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....

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Dust of the Sea

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...

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Bull Hill, Shelley Bank,  Cockle Sand

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...

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A series of public events!

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!

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Royal Geographical

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...

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And there is more..

And there is more..

You are invited to join in, get creative with a number of other Tidelines activities and projects.

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Exe Home screen

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...

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Tidelines Community Almanac

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...

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Things I’d like to know

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:...

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Mapping the Exe

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...

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Letters to the Sea

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...

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