Time and tide

Simon Ellis completes the final leg of his three-month sabbatical cruise along the South Coast of England

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

Roger Morgan-Grenville celebrates the shapeshifting glories of Britain’s sea paths, evanescent byways revealed by the tides

Can you really only visit Scilly in light winds?

‘Out of evil cometh good’, and out of a disaster one wild October night on Anglesey came an invention that may have saved more lives than any other. It’s a story best told on a fascinating walk on the island’s east coast.

When you’re watching waders, you need to make sure the conditions are just right, writes Ruth Miller