PART 3 of The Old Way Immersion - THE COAST CAMP

 

Camping on the wild South Devon shore at the height of Summer, you'll get acquainted with the ebb and flow of the tides and learn to read the sea. 

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We'll continue the journey into our relationship with plants and fire and enjoy the slow pace of life of the hunter-gatherer, net-making on the beach with Linda or softening and smoking buckskin with Jessie. Robin will explore with us both old and new ways of reciprocity with the Sea.

 

First Nations peoples say "at low tide the table is set" and we will follow this wisdom gathering winkles, whelks and limpets; red, brown and green seaweeds from the exposed rocks and prawns from the pools.  We'll set long-lines and crab pots in the rocky gullies never knowing what the next turn of the tide will bring - a few prawns, a dogfish, maybe a brown or spider crab or a even a lobster.

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We'll set up camp on a wild beach, fish from the rocks for bass, pollack and mackerel and feast on whatever abundance the shore has to offer us, cooked in the embers of a fire.  After watching the sunset over the sea we'll drift off to sleep under the moon and stars, and wake to the sound of the waves and the call of the peregrine from the cliffs.