{"id":671,"date":"2012-07-24T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=671"},"modified":"2020-04-04T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:33:36","slug":"broad-ledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Broad Ledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another post based upon a trip to Dorset earlier this year. Hopefully once my broken arm is better we\u2019ll be able to get out a bit more around the local area.<\/p>\n<p>Close to the centre of Lyme Regis Broad Ledge extends out into the English Channel and is accessible at low tide from Monmouth Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The most unusual creatures here are Cornish clingfish, long-clawed crabs, edible crabs, dragon nets, lugworms, scorpion fish and strawberry anemones. Cuttlefish often need rescuing after getting stranded in the rockpools, and masses of different winkle species adorn this stunning stretch of coastline.<\/p>\n<p>A surprisingly long drive from where we were staying in Corfe.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Hermit Crab\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1060202_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Hermit Crab\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nCommon Hermit Crab recycling a Periwinkle shell.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Hermit Crab\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1060200_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Hermit Crab\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nHermit crab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There\u2019s also a Southclaw variety. Unfortunately without a clear view of its front claw its hard to be sure.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Snakeslock Anemone (brown form)\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1652_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Snakeslock Anemone (brown form)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSnakeslock Anemone (brown form). The green seaweed to the left is Laver.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Snakeslock Anemone (green and purple form). \" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1654_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Snakeslock Anemone (green and purple form). \" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSnakeslock Anemone (green and purple form).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The green and purple colour is due to a symbiotic relationship with an algae.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Common Prawn\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1685_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Common Prawn\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nCommon Prawn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Periwinkle\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1689_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Periwinkle\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nPeriwinkle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another post based upon a trip to Dorset earlier this year. Hopefully once my broken arm is better we\u2019ll be able to get out a bit more around the local area. Close to the centre of Lyme Regis Broad Ledge extends out into the English <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=671\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[198,201,200,203,199,202,158],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seashore","tag-broad-ledge","tag-common-prawn","tag-hermit-crab","tag-laver","tag-lyme-regis","tag-periwinkle","tag-snakeslock-anemone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}