Seaside Safari Mr Bloom: Here and There

# Hello, my name is Mr Bloom

# And I'd like to come to see you soon

# I'm out on the road, you see

# Here and there

# So that we can get together and have some fun

# I'll help you out if there's work to be done

# So where is it you like to go?

# Call me up and let me know

# What is it you like to do?

# I'll pop along and do it too

# Cities, towns, the countryside

# I can travel far and wide

# I'm all about and everywhere

# I'm here and there. #

Hey, hello there, tiddlers! How are you tiddling?

Oh, Mr Bloom here.

I like going out and about.

Yeah, I like going here and there, doing lots of fun things

and finding out about new places.

And I've been wondering, what do you like to do where you live?

Perhaps you might like to do a spot of horse-riding

or maybe a bit of gardening like me.

Someone's got in touch! Hey, shall we see who it is?

Hello, Mr Bloom. My name's Giuseppe and I live near the seaside.

I love coming to the beach.

I love paddling in the waves.

And eating ice cream.

Bubble gum's my favourite flavour!

My name is Anna-Rose. I love the beach, too.

Ah, I got wet!

'I like to play lots of different games.'

We love coming here, Mr Bloom.

We're sure you would, too.

-BOTH:

-Please come for a visit.

Hey, well, that'd be grand!

Best be on my way then.

# Whereabouts will I end up next?

# Let's put my route finder to the test

# It could be a beach, a village or a city

# Museum or a school, a garden so pretty

# A church, a station, a river or town

# I just can't wait till you show me around

# Tiddlers, I'm on my way

# So where am I today? #

HE WHISTLES

Hey, now, I do like to be beside the seaside.

And on a day like this, I'm glad I've got my hat.

Also, I've got my suntan lotion so I'm ready to go.

I just need to find Giuseppe and Anna-Rose.

Oh, there they are!

And it looks to me like they're building a sand castle.

Hey, hello!

Hey, I can skip with it!

Hey, hello there, tiddlers. Hello, grown-ups.

-Hello, Mr Bloom.

-Hello, Mr Bloom.

It's nice to see you here today on the beach.

And look at this sand castle! It's fantastic, that.

-What's that in the middle?

-A swimming pool.

-A swimming pool?!

Oh, very nice! I think I can see some slides as well.

Yeah, that's a climbing frame and a swimming pool.

Hey, now we're talking!

Giuseppe, what are those shells for?

They're special mirrors.

All sand castles need special mirrors. Fantastic!

And where did you get those shells from?

We were collecting them in the rock pools, all of us were.

We go seashore safari.

A safari. That's like a journey,

where you go looking for lots of animals.

Who do you go on safaris with?

We went with an expert called Judith.

Well, de-bulb my daffodils!

That sounds a bit exciting.

Do you reckon we could go on a seashore safari today? Yeah?

Well, all we need do

is we just need to wait for the tide to go out a bit

so that it leaves the sea in the rock pools.

-So where do you think we could find Judith?

-Over there.

Hey, well, that sounds good to me. Let's go meet her.

Wow, look at all the rock pools the sea has left behind!

-There's lots to explore.

-There's Judith!

-Oh, you're right.

-Shall we go and see what she's found?

-Yes!

-Right then, see you later, grown-ups.

-Bye.

It's important to go rock pooling with a grown-up.

They can tell you when the tide is out

and when it will come back in.

You have to wear sturdy shoes, too,

ones that can get a bit wet.

The rocks are covered in seaweed and can get quite slippery

so make sure you step carefully.

-Hey, so you must be Judith?

-Yes.

-And who have we got here?

-I'm Tristan.

-I'm Laura.

We are on a rock pool safari.

Oh, safari, so goody!!

Judith, these tiddlers

have been telling me about these rock pools.

What might we find?

If we turn over some of these boulders,

we might find some tiny creatures called little brittle stars.

-They sound exciting, don't they?

-There's one.

I'm just going to put it into this bucket

so that we can have a closer look.

Ah! If you didn't know what you're looking for, you might miss it.

Do you see it as well?

Oh, this little fella is really small,

but the route finder's showing us one that's bigger.

Oh, and this fella is even bigger than that!

So if you look here, there's quite a hard, curly white thing.

Can you see that? It's called a keel worm.

And what it is is the tube of a worm.

And it's made this hard tube and it's living inside it.

And when the tide comes in,

the worm will stick his head out the end there

and put out tentacles that grab little particles of food.

The tiddlers set off to look for more creatures

where Judith said it was safe to go.

Back at the big rock pool, Judith has found something else.

On the rocks, we've got some big sea snails, here.

They are common limpets.

This animal, at the moment, is clamped down on the rock

and at high tide, when the tide comes rushing in here,

it'll let go, go for a little walk around

about three feet away from where it lives

and it will be eating young seaweed on the rocks.

Then it will go back to exactly the same place it started off from.

And on the rock, now and again,

you'll see this bare patch.

Can you see any over your side?

Is there a bare patch, a little circle?

Yeah, well done.

And that little circle is something called a home scar,

because this animal will grind its shell into the rock

and only its shell will fit that space.

So where there's bare spaces is where that animal didn't come back.

Now, I've just seen something scooting around in the pool

and I'm going to try and catch it.

But they're really fast-moving.

-Here we have it!

-Hey, well done, Judith!

What is it?

So this animal has got thin legs

and they're really stripy, aren't they?

Like blue and yellow, like football socks.

-Does anyone know what it is?

-A lobster?

It looks a bit like a mini lobster, doesn't it?

-It's sort of the cousin of a lobster.

-A limpet?

-It's a common prawn.

-A prawn!

-I like prawns.

So we're going to set the prawn free, back into his rock pool.

-Bye-bye, prawn.

-Bye-bye.

These prawns certainly can move.

Wow, look at him go!

The tiddlers are taking photos of the creatures they see

with a camera I brought along in my bag.

Remember, be careful not to hurt the creatures you find.

Like the tiddlers, these creatures love where they live.

It's important to put them back

in the same rock pool they came from.

OK, tiddlers, so what we've got here is an animal called a sea anemone.

And although at low tide it looks like a blob of jelly,

that's because it's pulled inside itself all of its tentacles.

And it would have about 200 tentacles,

which when it's in water will all be out and moving

and it will look a bit like a flower.

Oh, those anemones are beautiful!

Hey, it looks like a garden, a garden under the sea.

That's quite a big word to say, an anemone.

Can you say that? Shall we all try it?

-ALL:

-An anemone.

-CHIMING

-Hey-o!

Ah! It looks like the route finder

wants to show us more about the creatures

that live in the sea around the UK.

When the tide comes in, rock pools really spring to life.

Fabulous starfish.

Now, they have hundreds of tiny feet to get about.

And meet the neighbours!

That's a scallop.

See snails scurry to and fro,

eating tiny bits of seaweed on the rocks.

And when the tide goes out again,

this crab, with his clippy claw and beady eyes,

scuttles off to find a hiding place.

The tiddlers are drawing pictures

of all the creatures we've seen today.

And some we didn't!

There we go.

They're going to stick them and the photographs

into their scrapbooks

and then take them home.

And what have you been drawing pictures of?

-Jellyfish.

-Oh, can I see, Anna-Rose?

Oh, yeah. Look at that, tiddlers. Look!

-We didn't see any jellyfish today, did we?

-No!

Cos they don't live in rock pools, they live out to sea.

Eh, well, tiddlers, these scrapbooks, they look grand.

We've got pictures that we've taken today.

We've got the drawings of all the things we've seen.

You can take them away

and they'll remind you of this fantastic seaside safari.

What do you reckon? They looking good?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, that's right!

Well, I've got to say a great big thank-you

for inviting me today.

I've had a cracking time.

Judith, thanks for taking us on a seaside safari.

-It was great, wasn't it?

-ALL:

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

I can certainly see why you love where you live

cos it is brilliant.

But it's time I was on my travels.

So join me soon when I'll be...

Here and there!

-That's right! Bye-bye.

-Bye-bye!

# Where is it you like to go?

# Call me up and let me know

# What is it you like to do?

# I'll pop along and do it to

# Cities, towns and countryside

# I can travel far and wide

# I'm all about and everywhere

# I'm here and there. #