Spinnaker Cottage, Salcombe

08/06/2026

Stroll by Spinnaker Cottage!

27/05/2026

Just this

03/05/2026

Salcombe's getting crabby 🦀🦀

20/03/2026

Know where to find us?

13/03/2026

Lovely guide to Salcombe, mentioning some of our favourite places!

Where to eat, play and stay in the waterside gem of Devon's South Hams with Muddy's up-to-the-minute travel guide.

03/03/2026

Spinnaker Cottage in our early days - as Vivian's Boatyard. Famous for building the Salcombe Fruiterers, our ancestors were Master Mariners and sailors onboard the ships built here!

13/02/2026

Ingenious little guys!

🦀 **Have you ever seen a crab wearing a sponge?**

Along the coasts of Cornwall, Devon and South Wales lives one of the UK’s most unusual crustaceans — the **Dromia personata**, also known as the sponge crab.

These charming crabs are easy to recognise by their velvety bodies and pink-tipped claws (often described as “pink toes”). But their most remarkable feature? They carry a piece of living sponge on their backs like a little camouflage cloak.

🧽 Using specially adapted back legs, the crab carefully trims the sponge to size and holds it in place. This clever disguise helps protect it from predators — and the sponge may even provide chemical defence.

🌙 Sponge crabs are mostly nocturnal and are usually found on rocky seabeds, which means divers are more likely to spot them than beach walkers. If you ever see what looks like a moving sponge underwater… take a closer look!

These used to be a more unusual record for our inshore fleet in South Devon, but they're becoming more frequent. This little critter, of course, went back alive.

13/02/2026

The days when the side of Spinnaker Cottage was painted black!

19/01/2026

A charming short film about North Bovey and The Ring of Bells Inn, featuring my brother-in-law!

Documentary film exploring the community and history surrounding a rural British pub in North Bovey, Devon.DIRECTED BYEmma StansfieldDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHYJ...

09/01/2026

New Year, new view!

Glorious view from the Sauna and cold plunge baths (previously the Venus Beach café), just a short ferry ride from Spinnaker Cottage!

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