Exploring the Seashore in southern Africa

Title: Exploring the Seashore in southern Africa
Author: Margo Branch
Genre: Children's guide to marine life
Photography: Georg Branch
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Struik Nature
Cape Town, South Africa 2018
ISBN 9781775846277/ ISBN 978-1-77-584627-7
Softcover, 21 x 28 cm, 64 pages, throughout colour photographs and illustrations

About: Exploring the Seashore in southern Africa

Set out on an exciting adventure exploring the seashore in southern Africa! Discover the many treasures along southern Africa's wonderful coastline, learn all about the strange and beautiful creatures you can expect to see at the shore and where to find them, then try the fascinating activities and make your own first-hand discoveries. Now fully updated with an engaging design, Exploring the Seashore in southern Africa encourages the curious among the younger readers to discover first-hand the riches of our shore life. With its beautiful illustrations and photographs, it is not only richly informative but also a visual treat. Exploring the Seashore is a must for holidays at the coasts of southern Africa.

Margo Branch is an award-winning marine scientist, author and illustrator. She helped to develop the education programmes at the Two Oceans Aquarium as well as the Coastcare marine poster series. Margo and her husband George have spent a lifetime exploring coastal shores and have published widely on topics ranging from mushrooms, trees and fynbos to marine life, including Two Oceans - A guide to the marine life of southern Africa and their recently revised classic Living Shores - Interacting with southern Africa's marine ecosystems.

Content: Exploring the Seashore in southern Africa

Introduction
Waves and sand
Floating animals
Sandy-shore beach cleaners
Be a crab detective
Shells
Masters of swimming and colour change
The octopus and the paper nautilus
Rocky-shore intertidal life
The rocky shore and tides
Living in a harsh environment
Seaweeds and herbivores
Why some shells have holes
Shellfish and their enemies
Rock lobsters and their relatives
Rock pools - living under water
Rock pools and camouflage
Sea slugs
Anemones and corals
The sea stars
Urchins and sea cucumbers
Danger
Diving deeper
The kelp forest
Plankton and red tides
Fish and fisheries
Strange and important fish
Tropical fish - an explosion of colour
Sharks, rays and skates
Sea birds
Marine mammals
The bigger picture
Contrasting life in two oceans
Conservation
Useful contacts and references
Key words
Index