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A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands
Settling down on a patch of gravel and waiting until I bimbled over.......
Some sort of dead-eye or similar, this just sits in the middle of one of the gullies
All of the time keep an eye open for Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) they sting and the tentacles are a few meters long, always approach from up-tide!
Not all rust, here is a Dragonet (Callionymus lyra)
Wreckage from SS Loch Leven which foundered without the loss of life, not an oft dived site but very nice scenery plus rust!
The ships were built for speed, with plates rivetted together, the rivets will have been made from a softer material with less cobalt/manganese so have rotted away leaving rows of holes and allowing the paltes to start slipping.
The rock formations are formed so that the 'vertical cliff' faces the shore and the slopes lead away to the east. You can see that the faces are quite fractured and home to loads of different life, some edible some not so
Lobsters (Hommarus gammarus) in a pot, I think that these will be put back as they are 'borderline'.
Closer still and you can see the layout of the boat with the boiler towards stern of the vessel and some planks clinging to the bows
The divers favourite a Tompot Blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) this one was busy 'ripping' bits of food from a childs drop-net that you can just see in the background, so more than happy to pose for pictures as there was food about!
On one particular stone there were loads of Candy striped flatworms (Prostheceraeus vittatus), not sure why as adjacent areas were devoid.
The Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) returned for a little fin nibbling and finding that no-one really wanted to play he disappeared.
The softer compound rivets are also rotting away on this wreck
Head up the slope from the boilers in a south westerly direction and you will find a jumble of winches and machinery
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
A female Common Dragonet (Callionymus lyra), this one didn't want to move and simply shuffled deeper into the sand as the lens got closer.
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) the reason loads of divers visit the islands
C - Getting it cut was a chew but I knew that it was dried after a year in the shed
A smallish lobster (Homarus gammarus) out for a stroll in-among the kelp and weed.
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