Mona McCree

We are on Bray Beach down the south end near Bray Head and this is just a wonderful outdoor classroom for our kids coming down any minute now.

We come into the class, tell the kids about all the marine life, what you can find, how to find it, and then they get the experience of coming down to the beach and finding it for themselves.

And once they find that, then it really fosters environmental awareness and everything about the sea, how they can protect it.

Ah, here they are!

I can see them all running down to us!

So we are digging in the muddy sand here and they're looking for lugworms, they're looking for any other kinds of worms, rag, any other worms, and also for little bivalves.

So things like cockles and telum bivalves, things like that.

So let's see what we find.

So they are using their nets.

They're going around all the seaweed and they're looking for shrimp or prawns or little fish, maybe get some crabs.

There's so much here and all you really need to do is know what you're looking for and how to look for it.

Covered in water and sand.

Happy, happy kids.

And really, once that happens, then they get an interest in the marine environment.

They learn that they need to protect it.

And they're our future.

They're our future generation.

It's so important.

And as David Attenborough says, if you save the sea, you save the world.

And these kids are doing a fantastic job.