“The coast is where I grew up. Not the raw, rugged, untouched, cliff type coast I’m surrounded by now, but a pier-lined-neon-filled-funfair type. Yet beyond all the hustle and bustle, was an abundance of wildlife and nature…

Rockpools harbouring hidden gems of sea urchins and crabs, maybe the odd starfish if lucky; dunes topped with marram grass waving in the wind; circling gulls crying out overhead, and as the tide went out an army of worm casts left strewn across the shore, thrown up by burrowing lug worms.”