Every little helps....... these guys set up shop in 1879 so that is the earliest date for the mystery wreck

G - With the cabinet maker doing the job machining and then joining up the three planks to a coffee table size piece

Believe it or not a Gravel Sea Cucumber (Neopentadadactyla mixta) under the tentacles there is a creature living in a hole!

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit with a wrist mounted compass to give some sort of scale

All that was missing was 'Steptoe and son', a scrapyard!

An oyster clamped down on the pier. there were quite a few on the pier but I didn't spot any on rocks under the water.......

Looking towards Dell Point, not sure that you can clearly see the tosheroon in the watery winter sunshine

As you approach the debris field you will find little lengths of lead coated wiring sticking out of the sand or protruding from under stones.

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), I just couldn't get it to stay still to get a shot of it's back end!

A lump of anchor chain, some of the minimal evidence that a ship sank here.

In the actual 'submarine hole' it is an absolute mishmash of bits concreted onto the bottom, in this case a heavy gauge cable has been concreted onton steel and rock

This is the rounded section of stern and you can see how it's all falling apart as age causes a general degradation of the thinner steel used on these vessels, I don't think that there will be much left of the smaller vessels on the bicentennary of WW1

The barrel of one of the secondary guns

The 'hump' of anchor chain

A side view of the 'vertical' boiler, the boilers were well made and still intact, unlike those of SS Coryton at Ross Sands where you can swim inside to get nice atmospheric shots

B - At first I thought it was a fence post but then I saw the tree nails and the penny dropped it was part of an old wooden ship!

The top of the Point is battered with wave and tide which makes it attractive for filter feeders such as barnacles which are securely anchored but weeds, well it is difficult but there are plenty of the 'bootlace' weeds which I guess are ideally shaped to apply minimal forces to the roots.

The axle set was a bit of a cheat but not seen and strong enough

A view of the business end of an Angler-fish (Lophius piscatorious) there are loads about the sites and once you've spotted one they become easier to see.

Going up and some other bugger was on the line 'fizzin'

A sea lemon (Archidoris pseudoargus) you see quite a few of these and the trick is to approach slowly so they are unawre of your presence and leave their flowery gills out and in the water. Once again I was unsucessful!

A Plaice (Pleoronectidae platessa)

You can probably see from the general topography that the reef or should that be reefs run east west and as you get closer to the access point you will start seeing more bits of reef poking up, kinda pointing the way out!

Wreckage from SS Mistley, in this case from near the stern. This structure was only eally 'thrown up' after storms a couple of winters ago!

Some times all that you see are grip wires sticking out of the sand.......

Iron pieces in some of the gullys that have been scoured out since last winter, they could have been virtually anything

A scenic of some of the ribs, again plates missing and loads of brittle stars and 'poor cod'

This Pink (or Northern) Prawn (Pandalus montagui) was being actively stalked by a Common Lobster (Homarus Gammarus), you can see the lobbies claws!