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Seahouses - land of orchids and lotus blossom.
Actually early purple orchid Orchis mascula and yellow Lotus corniculatus (bird's foot trefoil).

The natural environment of Seahouses is quite exceptionally rich and varied with its broad sweeps of hard sands; dune systems growing to several storeys in height; rocks, both smooth and jagged, with a myriad pools at every tidal level.  And all this is in addition to the golf course and tended farmland leading up, more distantly, to the wilds of the Cheviot Hills within the Northumberland National Park.

To add to your enjoyment in exploring the immediate surroundings of the village there follows a range of descriptive web pages -

• The Seahouses sands of north and south beaches.
• Seahouses sand dunes.
• Seahouses rocks.
• The tidal zonation at Snook Point.

There is no official meteorological station anywhere in Seahouses, but interested folk can easily equip themselves with a max/min thermometer - perhaps bought from the Paint and Garden Centre on Main Street.  Regular noting down of the values can be followed by use of any computer spreadsheet to produce an 'easy-to-see' summary like this.  Seahouses benefits from its lowland coastal location to keep temperatures comfortable.

The marine environment of Seahouses is a bit like that of the Channel Isles.  They have their dramatic granite outcrops: we have the quartz dolerite Farne Islands.  But besides the obvious islands there are rocks awash in the tidal range, and other hazards hidden beneath the waves.  Supplementing the two full-scale lighthouses, on Inner Farne and Longstone, Trinity House looks after all the marker buoys.  Regular servicing involves Patricia working quite close in-shore at times.  But for historical reasons both environments include all too many shipwrecks, albeit now of interest to today's recreational divers.

A Five-spot Burnet has been caught supping from a Sea Rocket flower on Annstead (Seahouses south) beach.

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