Millions of years ago, about 230 to be precise, we had a regular visitor in this area, then it disappeared. In 2009 it returned to Sidmouth. Lurking in the Three Cornered Plot close to the fish, starfish and whelk can be found the RHYNCHORSAURUS. In 2009 there is no need for our visitors to run in terror though, as it is created in carpet bedding on a galvanized iron and wire base which was created in sidmouth by Nick Beavis. It along with pebbles (donated by Blackhill Quarry), plants, shrubs and a display board with information about the World Heritage Site, saw the Jurassic Coast trust, Sidmouth in Bloom, Oakdown Caravan Park (and their visitors who contributed via a voluntary payback) and the East Devon District Council all worked together to bring the Rhynchorsaurus back to the town.
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The Wicker Donkey :-
Somerset has its Willow man but Sidmouth has it's Donkey.
Our Chairman John Govier (now retired) was talking to Dr Elizabeth Svendson founder of the Donkey Sanctuary (now retired) and asked her if she could think of a way the Donkey Sanctuary could be involved with our town's floral displays, and Sidmouth in Bloom. Dr Svendson asked Tim Mason the Sanctuary's head gardener if he would make a life sized willow Donkey. Tim devoted 3 month's of his spare time to making the Donkey which. It is brilliant and our town is indebted to him. It can be seen just across the footpath from Sidmouth's famous Peacock. At the end of the summer the Donkey returns to the Donkey Sanctuary for the winter.
