Last Sunday morning I picked up my trusted bucket and drove to Castle Beach in Falmouth to get myself some new seaweeds. It was cold and my hands soon became numb rummaging through the rock pools. 
However, I found what I came for…. 
Thick bush of False eyelash weed Calliblepharis jubata: 
Red grape weed Gastroclonium ovatum: 
Wireweed Sargassum muticum. This weed and some others can be forcefully (but carefully) pulled from the rock, taking with it a shard which is very convenient for planting in the aquarium. 
Harpoon weed Asparagopsis armata growing on Black scour weed Ahnfeltia plicata: 
My new favourite: Bushy rainbow wrack Cystoseira tamariscifolia. This species is iridiscent blue, purple and green. 
All species together: 
