Rockpoolers braved the weekend weather to explore a renowned Cornwall beach on one of the lowest spring tides of the year.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust's marine team staged the free event at Gyllyngvase beach, at Falmouth, which is home to an abundance of marine species including hermit crabs, sea anemones and scorpion fish.
Experts provided a guided rockpool ramble along the shore on Saturday afternoon while a special "shore laboratory" enabled people to examine species at close quarters.
Matt Slater, marine awareness officer for the trust, said: "I grew up in Falmouth and spent many happy days of my childhood exploring the rockpools between Gyllyngvase and Swanpool. It is a truly inspiring location and since Victorian times has been considered one of the UK's best rockpooling sites."
The rockpool ramble was held as part of a series of events being organised on both sides of the English Channel as part of European-funded PANACHE (Protected Area Networks Across the Channel Ecosystem) project.
It aims to recruit "citizen scientists" to help improve knowledge of the marine environment as well as to show the public why it needs better protection.
