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Snakelocks anemone

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Species Recording at Under The Pier!

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Under The Pier... spotting anemones

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Sea squirt Experience

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Periwinkle trails in the rockpooling trays

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Sandcasting with Artecology & Ecceleston George

Sandcasting sea creatures

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Artist Hannah George makes rockpool art!

Flags mark the sandcast seacreature spots...

artist Nigel George from Artecology & Eccleston George, sandcasting sea creatures at Under The Pier

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a colonial seasquirt Botrylloides

Daisy anemone in the receding tide

A green sea urchin Psammechinus miliaris

Velvet swimming crabs and clams co-exist inside a broken pier strut

a line of netted dog whelk eggs

a tower of seaweed, sponge and squirts

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Dr Alice Hall, Bournemouth University, helps out on Under The Pier

Amazing find at Under the Pier - Dahlia anemone halfway through eating a crab

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The pier struts support a range of wildlife... to be explored at low tide

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a sponge garden featuring the molten-looking Suberites. These broken pier structs have become superb habitats

Always loads to do at Under The Pier!

Inventor Dan Roberts and his SeaSquirt Experience!

Leathery Sea Squirt

scallop, mussel, barnacles and even a baby limpet

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Scanning for bird species... over and around the pier...

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Decorating Ryde Pier with marine life-inspired artwork designed and painted by Ryde community groups

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Species recording with the Isle of Wight Natural History Society

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Under The Pier meets Isle of Wight Scooter Rally!

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IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT IT'S RAINING!

Sandcasting with Nigel George from Eccelston George & Artecology

Beadlet anemone under Ryde Pier picture by Ian Whitmore

Discovering a pipe-fish

Sagartia ornata Anemone picture by Alice Hall

Compass Jellyfish

Barnacles love Ryde Pier

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Stating the obvious...

Shell Gallery along the groyne

There are all sorts of oranges under Ryde Pier

Anemones and periwinkles

Recording species!

With Cool Time Club, Oakfield residents

a collection of sponges including the beautiful vase-shaped Sycon ciliatum

A small spider crab species, Macropodia

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When your rockpooling discoveries match your tattoos!

Periwinkles draw lines in the sand

Wet weather gear a must!

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Periwinkles sand-writing

Yes we have had fun! Leaving feedback...

At the end of Under The Pier

a lawn of Mastocarpus seaweed neatly growing in the sponge gardens

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Shrimp nets help us check for marine life tucked in the eel grass

Marine litter is a huge issue...

Alfie rescues a crab from marine litter & fishing line

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Making sea-creature-themed bunting to decorate Ryde Pier in the run-up to Under The Pier

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Making decorations for Ryde Pier in the run-up to Under The Pier

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Some of the Under The Pier team

Under The Pier artwork inspired by our finds and visitors... artist Hannah George - Makings

Under The Pier artwork inspired by our finds and visitors... artist Hannah George - Makings

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Under The Pier 2018

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Under the Pier from the Pier!

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Naturalist Ian Boyd helps us identify species

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Scorpion Spider crab

Taking a quick look at a 15-spine stickleback before it goes back in the sea

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Under the Pier in a Biosphere! 2019 was sunny, colourful and packed!

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Ecologist Ian Boyd helps everyone identify the wildlife they find

Sea Scorpions... gently does it!

Ryde's historic townscape from the End of The Pier Pic by Julian Winslow

Sandpooling with Ryde's historic streetscape as your backdrop picture by Julian Winslow

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Eye to eye with a Scorpion crab

Our events are all homespun and informal... as you can see!

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Our ecologist, Ian Boyd, helps identify and explain everything we find.

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Juvenile cuttlefish pic by Ian Whitmore

Dahlia anemone - pic by Ian Whitmore

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