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Is it a plant...is it a vegetable? I really don't know but suspect that it may actually be some sort of egg. There are always a few about but they do appear and then disppear in quite a short time-scale!
Another partially cleaned brass breech block.......
Horse Mussel (Modiolus modiolus) these large mussels tend to be solitary rather than in huge beds and taste ghastly so don't bother chopping them out from their homes embedded in the sea-bed.
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!
A Crawfish or should that be Spiny Lobster, doesn't matter as it's the same thing (Palinurus elephas) I did half heartedly attempt and extraction but it was 'so-so' size and without implements I wouldn't have been able to extract a lobster and crab, hey-ho!
A chain guard as used on telegraphs, this one was taken from the North Goldstone as a lump of concreted crud with brass bits showing. Not quite the Antikythera Mechanism but still an interesting project to decrud and get to a condition so that you can see what is what.
A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) these are always good subjects and whilst they may 'nip' inside their shells when you approach it isn't long before the peep out again!
Countless divers have seen this piece of copper pipe and tried to move it....one day I shall return with a hacksaw!!
Another Spiny Spider Crab (Maja squinado) common enough down south on on the West Coast of Scotland but not so many around the Farne Islands. It can be a bit disconcerting when they stand up suddenly out of the dirt......
A Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) there are loads on all or most sites, this is the most common 'camouflage'.
A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck
The mast going off into 'the gloom'
A common or garden Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), get to the gritty sand and you will se a few of these tasty fish, if you are so inclined you could bag for your tea.
Another footballer work of some description.......
A view over the broken 'bottom' with a random diver. At times the site does resemble diver soup usually when prevailing conditions are poor limiting access to other areas or when the seals are in residence.
When you head 'off-piste' away from the main body there are still large lumps of wreckage
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was sitting out in the open.
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was hiding in his hole and almost attached to my camera by a piece of string.....as the camera got close he retreated into his hole!
Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!
Looking from the 'end' of the first reef out to sea. There is a band of sand then another line of rocks and reef
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