LOVE SHACK FOR HORNY CROCS
by Drew Cunliffe Aquarists at Newquays Blue Reef Aquarium have built a special aquatic shelter for their pair of caiman crocodiles in the hope it will encourage them to breed. The floating shelter,...
View ArticleTHE BIG WEDNESDAY
It’s going to be another monster wave day today. Check out this scary stop-motion weather forecast from Magic Seaweed . Specialist surf site ‘Storm Surf’ is also forecasting 30 and 38 ft swells. It...
View ArticleTOP OF THE BILL!
by Amy Caldwell Tickets are on sale for an evening with famous rugby player Bill Beaumont, who’ll be in Cornwall this Saturday 1 March. The former England player is hosting an event with the Cornish...
View ArticleBRAVE BEN RESCUES WOMAN AND TWO POOCHES
pix by talented pro-snapper Ian Foster. Check him out Lifeboatmen rescued a woman and two dogs in a dramatic call-out to Tregantle Beach. The 20 year old, who’d sustained a head injury, was cut off by...
View ArticleIT AIN’T BREEZY
by Bernice Putt Lizard and Falmouth lifeboat crews saved the captain and crew of a 257 ft long cargo ship from disaster off Lizard Point. The Barbados registered Sea Breeze was on passage from...
View ArticleSURFGIRL LOST IN WINTER WAVES
by Claire Watkins A girl surfer who went out body boarding on Sunday evening and got into trouble was saved by Cornish coastguard and RNLI. The volunteer crew launched at 19:12 following reports of a...
View ArticleTEN LONG YEARS
pix show the ill-fated Breton trawler the Bugaled Breizh by Mike Chappell Ten years have now passed since the sinking of the Breton fishing boat ‘Bugaled Breizh’ (Children of Brittany) on 15 January,...
View ArticleWHO SLEW THE CORNISH GIANT?
Pix show the girls with the Bluefin at Rame and fishermen with blue fin tuna caught at the mouth of the Helford at the turn of the Century. Experts are trying to work out what killed a giant bluefin...
View ArticleBEATING BIG BERTHA
by Emma Haines Spring tides and strong winds from the tail end of Hurricane Bertha meant multiple rescues on north Cornish coast this weekend. At Fistral, five people were rescued from the water. At...
View ArticleTHEY DONE US PRAA’D
by Emma Haines RNLI lifeguards at Praa Sands helped a man who’d fallen from his kayak and was struggling to get back aboard on Friday. Alex Wake and Jowan Grant were on duty on Praa Sands beach when...
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