Duo-Divers

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.

Sea Hare (aplysia punctata) you get loads and loads of them on the south side of the point feeding and breeding!

Nudibranch alert! This particular species appears to have electric blue tips when viewed in the water.

A - It started with a bit of wood on the beach to the North of Bamburgh

Only one in this shot but I ended up making two reels....

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

The size of the scrap-field gives some indication of how large the vessel was but every year more of it is bashed, pulverised and washed away in winter storms....

working down the wreck it's pretty intact so you do get to see the ship even though it's at ninety degrees to the norm

The picked bones of a dead creature, probably a fish, most probably a wrasse caught and returned by anglers.

The geology of the site is all crevices and fissures so it's very pretty even without the wreckage

The site is very,very tidal and as such smothered with Dead Mans Fingers and other species, some of which are not common on any other farnes site!

Go out, south, and the bottom turns to big rocks surrounded by grit. Unfortunately it's all very mobile as you will see from the wave form of the sand, this means no scallops!

An Atlantic Cod (Gaulus mortua) this one was not hiding in a hole or crevice

A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), she was probably a tad larger than the size mentioned as a maximum on the species, with her mantle certianly bigger than 30cm

Arty-farty shot of a pinnacle

A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!

By late summer the once bare stems of the kelp are little microcosms of weeds and small animals, the winter storms smashes everything up but twelve months later it's all back.

A close up of some 100 year old teak decking, in the shelter this decking has lasted remarkably well and is still 'tough' and not at all spongey and falling apart.

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a section of hull plating.

Arty-farty alert....again!