Phew!! This was a photo assignment that could have gone wrong very easily…….Beamer Rock had to be blasted to prepare for the Forth Replacement Crossing foundations. The blast was scheduled for the previous day and a handful of boats floated about for FIVE hours waiting for a couple of grey seals to move off the rock. They are curious animals and not surprisingly found all the activity very interesting……Acoustic monitoring is employed by FCBC  to……..

FCBC Environmental Manager, Neil Abraham, tells pupils from Echline Primary School in South Queensferry about the geology of the seabed beneath the waters of the Forth Estuary. The kids are fascinated by Neil’s talk and have lots of probing questions about the rocks and minerals they can examine for themselves.  ……..