pameladlloyd: Alya, an original character by Ian L. Powell (bright leaves against dark sky)
I have been researching the wildlife, both animal and plant, that might be found in Welsh coastal areas. In the process, I've come across some truly gorgeous photography. One of the best sites is A Picture of Gower.

Since I'm not interested in a specific location, but more in the general types of things that might be found on the coast (although I've mostly focused on the Gower peninsula), my current lists (which are in no particular order and I'm sure are very incomplete) include:

Sea Mammals )
Things Found in Tidepools )
Plants of the Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes )
Birds )
Freshwater River Denizens )
Insects, Spiders and Other Creepy-Crawlies )
Misc Flowers, Plants, and Trees )
Miscellaneous )

I think the most fun was the information on the "culinary delicacies" of Gower (which appear to be the kinds of simple, local foods people would have prepared in this environment):
Cockles are just one of many Gower's culinary delicacies: others are laverbread (cooked seaweed; delicious with cockles and oatmeal) sewin (sea trout) mushrooms (ceps and blewits) salt-marsh lamb, gulls' eggs, marsh samphire and shellfish....

Source: Gower - Outstanding Natural Beauty

For more information about laverbread, see the Wikipedia entry for Laverbread.

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