0:00:02 > 0:00:04Go on, Salty!
0:00:09 > 0:00:14# Come with me, we're off to the sea To where I used to play
0:00:14 > 0:00:19# Looking back when I was a boy And the fun we had each day
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# Over the cobbles and through the streets
0:00:22 > 0:00:24# Playing in the sun
0:00:24 > 0:00:26# Friends to meet with games and treats
0:00:26 > 0:00:28# Adventures just begun
0:00:28 > 0:00:32# Stories from a magical world washed in by the sea
0:00:32 > 0:00:37# Meet the rockpool creatures there It's amazing what you see!
0:00:38 > 0:00:42# Looking back, when I was a boy
0:00:42 > 0:00:44# Shrimps and starfish, crabs and snails
0:00:44 > 0:00:47# In twinkly rockpool tales. #
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Ha-ha, ha-ha! # Those lovely rockpool tales. #
0:00:55 > 0:00:57What have you got there?
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Let's have a look, come here!
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Ha-ha-ha! You clever girl. Oh, dear! That's my old beach hat.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Look at that! Thank you, girl. SALTY GROWLS SOFTLY
0:01:07 > 0:01:10This floppy old thing brings back a few memories,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14I can tell you. It once belonged to a friend of mine.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18Would you like me to tell you the story of this hat, hmm?
0:01:19 > 0:01:21All right, I will.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24It all happened when I was a boy...
0:01:24 > 0:01:29In a twinkly time, long, long ago...
0:01:32 > 0:01:37In those days, I used to run down to play on the beach
0:01:37 > 0:01:39as often as I could,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42meeting up with my best friends,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Little Ernie and Little Sailor Sue.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51But on this particular day, we couldn't find Ernie anywhere.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55He wasn't in the boat hut or amongst the lobster pots.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59None of your favourite places, Salty! Ha!
0:01:59 > 0:02:02We looked everywhere but there was no sign of Ernie.
0:02:02 > 0:02:07Nearby, there was a boy sitting on a rock, gazing out to sea.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10On his head was a large straw hat.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Sue coughed. Ahem!
0:02:12 > 0:02:16And she asked him if he had seen Ernie.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19The boy turned round to look at us.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22And we both nearly fell over laughing!
0:02:22 > 0:02:26It was Ernie and he looked very fed up.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30"My mum told me to wear this hat because I got burnt in the sun
0:02:30 > 0:02:32"yesterday," he said. "But it's too big!"
0:02:32 > 0:02:36"It keeps falling over my eyes!" "Well, I know how to cheer you up,"
0:02:36 > 0:02:39I said. "Let's go and make sandcastles!"
0:02:39 > 0:02:43So, off we dashed, me and Sue rushing ahead
0:02:43 > 0:02:46and Ernie behind us, stumbling along,
0:02:46 > 0:02:51as he held up the brim of this enormous sun hat. Ha-ha!
0:02:51 > 0:02:53I had a little flag in my pocket,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56which I wanted to put on the top of our sandcastle
0:02:56 > 0:03:01and Sue suggested we find some old seaweed to decorate the sides.
0:03:01 > 0:03:06Well, the best place to find seaweed was by the rockpools.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10Sue and I scrambled over to the rocks and when we arrived,
0:03:10 > 0:03:14we gazed deep down into the glittery waters...
0:03:16 > 0:03:23And there, a magical world appeared before our eyes...
0:03:23 > 0:03:26It was a very sunny day deep down in the rockpool.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Sally the Starfish was scrambling over the rocks, looking
0:03:29 > 0:03:34for seashells to collect, when she spotted Bertrum the Butterfish,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36stretched out in the sunny garden.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40"Are you enjoying the sunny garden?" said Sally to Bertrum.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43"No, I am not!" huffed and puffed Bertrum.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46"It's much too hot today! Much, much, too hot
0:03:46 > 0:03:49"and there's not a scrap of shade."
0:03:49 > 0:03:52It was very hot in the sunny garden.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56And, as Sally watched Bertrum bustle off,
0:03:56 > 0:04:00she thought he seemed even more grumpy than normal.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05Just then, Sally caught sight of something tangled in the seaweed.
0:04:05 > 0:04:11It was a piece of red, white and blue cloth, wrapped around a long stick.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13WOOF! No, Salty, it wasn't a stick
0:04:13 > 0:04:16you could chase. No, no, no...
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Sally shuffled over carefully to take a look at it.
0:04:20 > 0:04:25It must have been washed into the rockpool by the tide, she thought.
0:04:25 > 0:04:30So, using her starfishy arms, she gently freed it from the seaweed
0:04:30 > 0:04:35and took it back to the rocky ridge where all her friends lived.
0:04:35 > 0:04:40"Look what I found!" she said to Belinda the Blenny, when she arrived.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42"It's a...a..."
0:04:42 > 0:04:46But she couldn't think what it was and neither could Belinda.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50"It looks a bit too long and a bit too sticky to be fun to play with,"
0:04:50 > 0:04:55said Belinda, in her quiet way. "Perhaps we should put it back."
0:04:55 > 0:04:59But Sally wanted to know what it was.
0:04:59 > 0:05:04I think I know who'll be able to tell me all about this -
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Reginald the Great Wise Limpet.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11So, Sally went off in search of Reginald.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Now, limpets like to stick themselves to rocks
0:05:14 > 0:05:18and then stay there for a very long time.
0:05:18 > 0:05:24Reginald was one of the oldest and wisest limpets in the rockpool
0:05:24 > 0:05:26and he lived on the water's edge
0:05:26 > 0:05:31so that he could see out into the great wide world beyond.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Reginald knew many things.
0:05:34 > 0:05:40He knew that the sun in the sky was an enormous grapefruit.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45And he knew that children's toes were actually little giggly sea snails.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51And he knew that teddies couldn't swim without armbands.
0:05:52 > 0:05:57Well, when Sally showed him the stick with the colourful cloth
0:05:57 > 0:06:02wrapped around it, he opened a wise old sleepy eye and said...
0:06:04 > 0:06:08"It's a Wiggler." "A Wiggler?" said Sally.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10"Yes," said Reginald.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12"What do you do with it?" said Sally.
0:06:12 > 0:06:17"You put it into the cracks between rocks
0:06:17 > 0:06:19"and you wiggle it. A bit..."
0:06:19 > 0:06:23"Do you do anything else with it?" asked Sally.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27"No," replied Reginald. Sally was a little disappointed.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32She had hoped her discovery would be something wonderful to play with
0:06:32 > 0:06:35or give her loads of good ideas for games.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38But it was just a Wiggler.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42"Thank you, Reginald, Great Wise Limpet,"
0:06:42 > 0:06:45said Sally, trying not be too disappointed.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50And she dived down into the water with her newly named Wiggler.
0:06:50 > 0:06:55Reginald watched her go with a gloopy gaze.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57He was rather pleased with his answers
0:06:57 > 0:07:01and he was sure he knew everything about Wigglers.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04WOOF!
0:07:04 > 0:07:06I don't think he did, really, did he, Salty?
0:07:06 > 0:07:10Now, as Sally swam down through the clear waters of the rockpool,
0:07:10 > 0:07:17the colourful cloth wrapped around the Wiggler started to open up.
0:07:17 > 0:07:23And by the time Sally reached the bottom, it had unfurled completely.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27Sally looked in wonder at its beautiful red,
0:07:27 > 0:07:32white and blue colours. Just then, Andrew bounced by.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36Andrew was a very adventurous anemone and today
0:07:36 > 0:07:42he was perched on a bouncy red ball that had plopped into the rockpool.
0:07:42 > 0:07:49Boing! Andrew bounced past Sally. Boing! He bounced back again.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53"Hi, Sally!" he said. "I like that!" Boing! And he bounced off.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57"It's a Wiggler!" said Sally.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01Reginald, the Great Wise Limpet told me.
0:08:01 > 0:08:07Boing! Andrew bounced back over to Sally and came to rest on the rocks.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10"A Wiggler?" he said, a little out of breath.
0:08:10 > 0:08:15"It looks more like one of those flappy things I've seen
0:08:15 > 0:08:18"on the top of sandcastles on the beach."
0:08:18 > 0:08:20WOOF!
0:08:20 > 0:08:24What's that, Salty? You know what that flappy thing was?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26WOOF! Yes, that's right, it was a flag.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Yes, good girl.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32Well, Sally was very surprised. "You mean it's not a Wiggler?"
0:08:32 > 0:08:36"Well, that might be what it's called, I suppose," said Andrew.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40"I've seen lots of them. They're on big poles at the harbour walls,
0:08:40 > 0:08:43"on the ends of boats in the water and they're always
0:08:43 > 0:08:48on top of sandcastles." "Oh, shall we build a sandcastle?" said Sally.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52"We could put our Wiggler on it." That sounded like a really good idea.
0:08:52 > 0:08:57So, Sally and Andrew got to work, digging the sand at the bottom
0:08:57 > 0:09:02of the rockpool, creating their very own sandcastle.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05And finally, after a lot of hard work,
0:09:05 > 0:09:07they were ready to put the Wiggler in.
0:09:07 > 0:09:13Using her little arms, Sally pushed it into the top of the sandcastle.
0:09:13 > 0:09:18And then she and Andrew stood back to admire it.
0:09:18 > 0:09:24But as they did so, the Wiggler started to float up.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27It didn't want to stay under the water.
0:09:27 > 0:09:32But they tried and tried to put it back. But it kept floating off.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36I don't think Wigglers like being underwater, said Sally,
0:09:36 > 0:09:38shaking her head sadly.
0:09:38 > 0:09:43They watched the flag float up to the surface of the rockpool
0:09:43 > 0:09:49and there it lay like a colourful blanket over them.
0:09:49 > 0:09:54And as it lay there, Sally the Starfish had a brilliant idea.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59The kind of idea that makes your whiskers whiffle, Salty.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05Sally turned to Andrew and she smiled.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09"I know what we could do with it," she said.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13And with that, she swam up to the surface to gently guide
0:10:13 > 0:10:15the Wiggler across the rippling water
0:10:15 > 0:10:21until it settled right over the sunny rockpool garden.
0:10:23 > 0:10:29Down below, a very hot Bertrum looked up in surprise.
0:10:29 > 0:10:34A wonderful, cool Wiggler-shaped piece of shade had appeared
0:10:34 > 0:10:38and suddenly he didn't feel hot any more.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42He stretched his long body and all the grumpy grumpiness seemed
0:10:42 > 0:10:46to fall away from him, like spray off a pebble.
0:10:47 > 0:10:52He beamed his biggest Bertrum smile and called up,
0:10:52 > 0:10:58"Thank you, young Sally. Oh, that's just what I needed!"
0:10:58 > 0:11:04So, for the rest of the day, hot rockpoolers came to stretch out
0:11:04 > 0:11:08under the cool shade of Sally's wonderful Wiggler.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Well, Salty, we looked up from the rockpool
0:11:16 > 0:11:19and I realised I still had MY flag in my pocket.
0:11:19 > 0:11:24So, I called to Ernie, who was on the beach nearby.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28"This needs to be on the top of a sandcastle!" I shouted.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33Ernie was smiling broadly and he wasn't wearing his hat.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37"Hey, Ernie," I said. "What happened to your sun hat?"
0:11:37 > 0:11:40"Oh, it blew away!" said Ernie.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43SALTY WHIMPERS Yes, I know, Salty.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Sue and I were a little surprised to hear that too.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49It wasn't a very windy day.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54"Well," I said, "At least there's somewhere to stick this flag now."
0:11:54 > 0:11:59And so I stuck the flag in the top of Ernie's sandcastle.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02"No!" cried Ernie.
0:12:02 > 0:12:08And can you guess what was underneath? Yes.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11The enormous sun hat.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14"Well, it was too big for me," said Ernie.
0:12:14 > 0:12:20"So I thought I could turn it into a sandcastle instead." Oh, dear!
0:12:20 > 0:12:23We all fell about laughing.
0:12:23 > 0:12:29And then we played and played until it was time for us to go home,
0:12:29 > 0:12:34when the tide came in and covered the rockpool,
0:12:34 > 0:12:37like a great seaweedy blanket.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51You know, Salty, this old hat was always too big for Ernie.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53So he gave it to me.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57And it's perfect for keeping the sun out of my eyes. Stay there, girl!
0:12:57 > 0:13:00There we are. Look at that! Ha-ha!
0:13:00 > 0:13:03And you can have that one on, can't you? Here you are!
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Keep the sun out of your eyes, won't it?
0:13:05 > 0:13:10So, why don't you join us for some more rockpool tales next time?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Goodbye!