Our story

Three generations
of reading the same sea.

We didn't set out to build a business. We set out to share the coast we grew up on — at a pace that lets you actually hear it.

Old harbour with wooden fishing boats and stone walls at golden hour

It began with a kettle and a tide chart.

In 2014, my father — retired after forty years skippering trawlers out of Lyme — started taking visitors on short walks around the Cobb. Just for fun. Just to fill the long afternoons.

Word spread the way it does in small harbour towns. Within a year, his cousin Maeve had joined. Then my brother Finn. Then a small blue-doored cottage at the end of Quay Lane became our home base.

Today we're a family of eight skippers and storytellers, walking small groups along the routes our grandparents used to mend nets on. Nothing about it has been engineered. It just grew like the bladderwrack on the rocks — slowly, in its own direction.

What we hold to

A handful of quiet principles.

Small is the point.

We cap our groups so conversation can breathe. Ten walkers is our maximum — and most days, we're well below it.

The coast comes first.

We don't trample dune systems for a photo. We give nesting birds space. We leave the cove the way we found it.

Stories over scripts.

Our skippers tell what they lived. The wreck of the Marigold. The night the harbour froze. The summer the dolphins came back.

Hospitality is non-negotiable.

Tea, oatcakes, somewhere dry to sit. If the weather turns, you're never far from a warm room and a towel.

The skippers

The people who'll walk with you.

Portrait of older man with weathered face wearing wool jumper near harbour

Eamon Skipper

Founder · 40 yrs at sea

Knows every rock by its first name. Will probably offer you a boiled sweet.

Portrait of woman with windswept hair standing on coastal path

Maeve Carrow

Headland & Cove Routes

Botanist, beachcomber, and the only skipper who can identify nine kinds of seaweed by smell.

Portrait of bearded man wearing fisherman's cap looking out to sea

Finn Skipper

Lantern Trail & Storm Watch

Best storyteller on the coast, by general agreement. Don't ask him about the Marigold unless you have an hour.

Three generationsof reading the same sea.