I have had the privilege to be a tutor, and latterly Associate Tutor, for the Field Studies Council for 37 years, and counting (Archer-Thomson and Cremona, 2019). In this time, I have introduced groups to the wonders of the coastal zone, namely, offshore islands, saltmarshes, sand dunes, mangrove swamps, coral reefs, cliff tops and the sublittoral and, in particular, rocky shores. The latter, in my opinion, is one of the most fascinating, biodiverse and downright weird habitats available for study anywhere and it has the additional merit, especially in a British context, of being natural, at least in the main.