Take a virtual tour of the Northumberland coastline while in lockdown

Ian Jackson, a trustee with Northumberland Wildlife Trust has produced the seven-minute guided tour following interest in his virtual tours of Hadrian’s Wall on YouTube.

‘Fossils, ripples and reformers’ covers the three miles from Low Stead to Craster and skips backwards and forwards between 300 million years ago and the present day.

Ian makes reference, amongst other things, to kippers, Earl Grey and his involvement in the abolition of slavery, butterflies, wild flowers, oyster catchers, kittiwakes, eider ducks, limpets and anemones, archaeology and fossils including a horsetail fern.

Ian combined his lifelong interest in geology with his love of the Northumberland coastline in the hope that once people are out of lockdown, they will experience the beauty for themselves and stop off at Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre en-route.

In the meantime, visit https://youtu.be/hoLAvglvc34.

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