Spirals In Time: The Secret Life And Curious Afterlife Of Seashells - Plot & Excerpts
Standing at the end of Mumbles pier, I look down onto the cloudy, sage-green water, ruffled by westerly winds that are scudding across Swansea Bay and making today a bad day for going out on boats. On the other side of the bay are the looming towers of the steelworks at Port Talbot, a sight often compared to an industrial version of Mordor. Over here on this western side things feel much friendlier. If the weather had been kinder I would have joined fisheries scientist Andy Woolmer aboard his faithful workboat Triton, and helped him hunt for oysters. We would have dragged a small dredge along the seabed, four or five metres beneath the waves, and pulled it up now and then to see what was down there. If the water had been clear, we would have lowered down a video camera to see what we could see. Instead we walk out across the water. The Mumbles pier was built more than 100 years ago, and is now in the process of being restored; at one end, next to the beach, there’s a noisy amusement arcade, and a shiny new lifeboat is stationed at the other end.
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