0:00:02 > 0:00:03Go on, Salty!
0:00:09 > 0:00:11# Come with me We're off to the sea
0:00:11 > 0:00:13# To where I used to play
0:00:13 > 0:00:19# Looking back when I was a boy and the fun we had each day
0:00:19 > 0:00:21# Over the cobbles and through the streets
0:00:21 > 0:00:23# Playing in the sun
0:00:23 > 0:00:26# Friends to meet with games and treats
0:00:26 > 0:00:28# Adventures just begun
0:00:28 > 0:00:33# Stories from a magical world Washed in by the sea
0:00:33 > 0:00:37# Meet the rockpool creatures there It's amazing what you see
0:00:37 > 0:00:41# Looking back when I was a boy
0:00:41 > 0:00:45# Shrimps and starfish Crabs and snails
0:00:45 > 0:00:47# In twinkly Rockpool Tales... #
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Ha-ha!
0:00:49 > 0:00:52# Those lovely Rockpool Tales. #
0:00:52 > 0:00:59Ha-ha! Oh, hello. Salty and I, we've been listening to the sea.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03It makes a great sound, doesn't it? Listen.
0:01:03 > 0:01:04WHOOSH
0:01:04 > 0:01:09A sort of whooshing and splooshing, you know. Good, isn't it, Salty?
0:01:09 > 0:01:13I think it's one of my favourite seaside sounds.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17You can't beat it, can you, girl? No.
0:01:19 > 0:01:25But once, you know, I heard a very unusual sound on the beach.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Very unusual indeed.
0:01:27 > 0:01:35It all happened when I was a boy, in a twinkly time long, long ago.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41I used to run down to play on the beach as often as I could,
0:01:41 > 0:01:45meeting up with my best friend, Little Sailor Sue.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49On this particular day, we ran all the way down to the sea
0:01:49 > 0:01:51to dip our toes in.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55The water was so cold, it made us shriek.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Argh! But we got used to it, though, after a bit.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03And then we raced back up the beach and collapsed onto the warm sand.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09We closed our eyes and listened to all the sounds of the seaside.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15The noisy seagulls calling, and people's distant voices,
0:02:15 > 0:02:20and best of all, the whooshing, swooshing song of the sea.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24But suddenly we heard another sound.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Not a sound we'd ever heard on the beach before.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34It wasn't a nice sound either. It was a terrible twanging and parping.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35SALTY WHINES
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Yes, I know, Salty.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40I think we'd call that a terrible hullabaloo, wouldn't we?
0:02:40 > 0:02:45The sound seemed to be coming from the rockpool, so we decided to go
0:02:45 > 0:02:49and find out what it was, and as we got closer, the noise got louder.
0:02:49 > 0:02:55"The noise is coming from here," said Sue, pointing to a large rockpool.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59We gazed deep down into the glittery waters
0:02:59 > 0:03:04and a magical world appeared before our eyes.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12There was indeed a bit of a hullabaloo
0:03:12 > 0:03:14in the rockpool that day.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17You see, it all started
0:03:17 > 0:03:21when Sheena the Shrimp settled down to have her nap.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26The rockpool was very quiet at that moment.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30There wasn't a honk or a hoot, or anything to disturb her,
0:03:30 > 0:03:35but poor Sheena, she just could not get to sleep.
0:03:35 > 0:03:40"I want to sleep, but I can't," Sheena told Sally the Starfish,
0:03:40 > 0:03:42who happened to be passing by.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46"Don't worry, Sheena," said Sally. "I'll play you some gentle music.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49"It might help you to fall asleep."
0:03:50 > 0:03:57So, Sally found her little sea lace harp and ever so, ever so gently,
0:03:57 > 0:04:03she plucked the strings and it made a beautiful, silky sound.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09Sheena suddenly felt very sleepy
0:04:09 > 0:04:15and it wasn't long before she was letting out little shrimpy snores.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19SNORING
0:04:19 > 0:04:24"I'll keep playing my harp," said Sally. "It seems to be working."
0:04:24 > 0:04:29Just then, Buster the Crab came sidling by and when he heard
0:04:29 > 0:04:34Sally's lovely harp music, his eyes spun round on their stalks.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37"Can I join in?" he asked.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41"Of course, but you must play softly," Sally whispered.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44"Sheena is having her nap."
0:04:44 > 0:04:50So, Buster scuttled off, came back with his scallop shell double bass
0:04:50 > 0:04:54and his long bow that was made out of a little piece of razor shell.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57He slid the bow across the strings
0:04:57 > 0:05:00and it made a low, dreamy sound.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05He played quite softly.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07But with one player more,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10the music was a little louder than before.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14And Sheena suddenly stopped snoring.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17She snuffled a bit and her antennae twitched.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Luckily she started snoring again.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22SNORING
0:05:25 > 0:05:30"Phew!" said Sally. "Sheena is still sleeping. Sh!"
0:05:30 > 0:05:33So, they kept playing as softly as they could.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Belinda the Blenny heard the music. She came swimming up.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41"That sounds lovely," she said. "Shall I fetch my pipes?"
0:05:41 > 0:05:44"Can you play them softly?" Sally asked nervously.
0:05:44 > 0:05:49"Only, Sheena is having her map and we don't want to wake her."
0:05:49 > 0:05:53"Of course," said Belinda, darting off into the seaweed
0:05:53 > 0:05:57and quickly reappearing with her pipefish pipes.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00They looked like a tangle of green snakes
0:06:00 > 0:06:04and made a rather unusual sound.
0:06:04 > 0:06:09# Rrrrd, Da-drrr, Rrrrr-rrrr! #
0:06:11 > 0:06:13She parped quite softly,
0:06:13 > 0:06:19but with one player more, the music was louder than before.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23And Sheena immediately stopped snoring again and she wriggled
0:06:23 > 0:06:30and she jiggled and snuffled and then luckily she started to snore again.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34"It was easier to play quietly when it was just me and my harp,"
0:06:34 > 0:06:35thought Sally.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39"It's quite hard to play quietly when there are lots of us."
0:06:39 > 0:06:44Meanwhile, Andrew the Anemone had heard the music
0:06:44 > 0:06:46and he wanted to play too.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51So, he searched in his rock cupboards for his whelk shell tuba.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57Then he curled his tentacles around it, raised it and blew.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01It made a low, tummy-wobbling sound.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05# Bwoh-bwoh-bwoh. #
0:07:05 > 0:07:10"Sh!" whispered Sally. "We need to play softly or we'll wake Sheena."
0:07:10 > 0:07:14"Ooh, whoops! Ooh, sorry, sorry," said Andrew.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16And he blew more gently.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18# Ba-wa-wa, ba-ba. #
0:07:18 > 0:07:22But even so, with one player more, the music was louder than before.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27Sheena let out a little squeak in her sleep.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32"Ooh-ahh-ooh!" And she wriggled and jiggled about a bit
0:07:32 > 0:07:35but luckily she didn't wake up.
0:07:35 > 0:07:40Sidney the Snail popped his head out of his shell.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45"You're all playing music without me," he protested.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49And with that, the grabbed his drumsticks with his feelers
0:07:49 > 0:07:52and banged his oyster shell drums along to the music.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55STEEL PAN MUSIC
0:07:55 > 0:08:03"Sh!" cried Sally. "We are trying to play softly to help Sheena sleep."
0:08:03 > 0:08:06"Well, why didn't you say so?" said Sidney.
0:08:06 > 0:08:11And he muffled has drumsticks with some seaweed, which made him
0:08:11 > 0:08:14sound much softer.
0:08:16 > 0:08:21But still with so many rockpoolers playing, the music was getting
0:08:21 > 0:08:23louder and louder.
0:08:23 > 0:08:29Sheena's eyelids fluttered, but luckily she kept snoring.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34Bertrum the Butterfish whizzed by.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37"Music time? Wait for me. I'll go and get my tower shell clarionet,"
0:08:37 > 0:08:42he told everyone, and it wasn't long before he was playing along too.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44CLARINET PLAYS
0:08:44 > 0:08:46SALTY YELPS
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Oh, yes, Salty, yes, you like a bit of clarionet, don't you?
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Soon, all the rockpoolers were trying to be the loudest.
0:08:52 > 0:08:57And to make things worse, Bertrum thought that everyone was
0:08:57 > 0:09:01playing too slowly, so he started to play faster.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03None of the others could keep up.
0:09:03 > 0:09:09And, oh, dear! The music didn't sound beautiful any more.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13It had turned into a terrible hullabaloo.
0:09:13 > 0:09:18I mean, it was so loud that you could hear it at the beach.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20SALTY WHINES Yes, I know, Salty.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24It was enough to make you stick your paws over your ears, wasn't it?
0:09:24 > 0:09:29Yes. "Quiet," Sally hissed, "or we will wake Sheena."
0:09:29 > 0:09:33But no-one could hear a word Sally said.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36They were all playing too loudly.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Oh! Then suddenly, there was a sound that was louder
0:09:40 > 0:09:43than all their parping and hooting and thumping.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46"STOP!"
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Everyone stopped playing immediately.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56It was Sheena. She had woken up.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59"You were too loud," she said, frowning.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05Well, the rockpoolers were very, very sorry indeed.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08"I think we've played enough music for today.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12"We'd better put our instruments away," said Sally.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15But Sheena didn't want her friends to stop.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19"Can't you just play nicely?" said Sheena.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22"I'm not sleepy any more and I'd like to listen."
0:10:22 > 0:10:27Then Buster the Crab snapped his claws together with excitement
0:10:27 > 0:10:28because he'd had a bright idea.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30WOOF!
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Salty has bright ideas sometimes, don't you, girl?
0:10:33 > 0:10:37Yes, and when she does, she whiffles her whiskers.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41"We need a conductor to help us play our instruments together,"
0:10:41 > 0:10:44said Buster. "It's a very important job."
0:10:44 > 0:10:48"I will do it," said Sheena, bobbing up and down with excitement.
0:10:48 > 0:10:55So, Buster showed Sheena how to be a conductor.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00When Sheena kept her antennae low, the rockpoolers played quietly.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04And when she stretched them up high, they played much louder.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09Sheena had lots of fun being a conductor, and the music,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13it sounded really lovely.
0:11:14 > 0:11:19So lovely, in fact, that Sally caught the sound in one of her favourite
0:11:19 > 0:11:25shells and she gave it to Sheena as a special present.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29"You can listen to it at nap time," she told Sheena,
0:11:29 > 0:11:34"and it will help you to fall asleep."
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Sally is a very kind starfish, as you probably know.
0:11:40 > 0:11:45The hullabaloo in the rock pool was now lovely music, which got
0:11:45 > 0:11:50quieter and quieter as Sue and I skipped back down the beach.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55The sea was still whooshing and splooshing
0:11:55 > 0:11:57and the seagulls were calling.
0:11:58 > 0:12:03I found a lovely shell and I picked it up and I listened.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06MUSIC PLAYS
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Was that the sound of Sally the Starfish
0:12:09 > 0:12:12and her friends playing their music again?
0:12:12 > 0:12:17Or was it the sound of the waves as the tide started to come in
0:12:17 > 0:12:22and cover over the rockpool like a great seaweedy blanket?
0:12:33 > 0:12:38Ha-ha-ha! So, Salty, all that hullabaloo we heard that day sounded
0:12:38 > 0:12:41lovely in the end, didn't it, girl? And do you know what?
0:12:41 > 0:12:45From that day on, whenever I find a shell, I always
0:12:45 > 0:12:50listen for the sound of the sea, or maybe other things like music too.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55You can have a listen when you find a shell.
0:12:55 > 0:13:00So, why don't you join us for some more Rockpool Tales next time?
0:13:00 > 0:13:04Bye-bye. Come on, girl.