Diary
All around Howick and Beadnell for a weekend diving
With one thing and another (back issues) my diving has been limited to places where I can take my gear in a wheelbarrow.....yes it looks comical but its a simple equation.........no wheelbarrow = no diving
Babbacombe.....end of break round up!
That's my whack, four days and six dips at Babbacombe, time to pack up and away North to Gods Country
Its Spring Bank Holiday and that means one thing.....Babbacombe!
We come down to Babbacombe every spring bank holiday and have done for a few years, for a break and some 'different' diving
What a day for the 'scrap', or what a bloody toxic mess, you choose!
I can't say I've ever had a day like it as you shall find out.....
The poor mans Ernest Cox, or something like that!
It was a bit hit and miss today when I finally got back in the water from the North Side of Beadnell Point, not that conditions had worsened, sure we now had a little chop and strong southerly but that hadn’t impacted
All around the 'Little Rock' at Beadnell
For those who aren't fully aware, if you go along Beadnell Point at, or about low tide the first 'secondary reef' pokes its nose above the surface, not far, maybe ten yards from the main point at the seaward end, this is 'Little Rock'.
The North Side of Beadnell Point, the gift that keeps giving!
It’s the gift that just keeps on giving, that is the North Side of Beadnell Point, a small area with the remains of several wrecked vessels, certainly MV Yewglen, probably parts from ST Mistley, well the boiler anyhow and of course a few wooden vessels which have only left rudder pintles dotted about, oh and of course the odd ‘trinket’
- What a lovely dip on the North Side of Beadnell Point
- Ohhhhhhh its a long old drag back from the 'North Side'
- I think (hope) that the salt water dive season has started
- A gap in the weather means get in quick
- Is the shore dive season for 2022 back on?
- I still reckon that West Coast Sea Lochs offer the best muck diving
- The joys of a local water park!
- Beadnell shore dives in January, you sick and twisted boy!
- Howtown pier was busy as a summers day
- England's lake-district again, still at Ullswater
- I reckon thats about it.......
- Ullswater and our yesterdays
- It's that time of year........
- Something you seldom see
- What excellent conditions!
- An afternoon on Beadnell Point
- Back on the beach after a while on the boat
- It's always 'different' at Howick
- A series of dives at Seahouses Powder House
- First side on the North Side in 2021
- The sea giveth and over the winter the sea hath taken away!
- Rather variable vis this weekend!
- Gone to shite.....again!
- Third time lucky? Well guess!
- Second time in and the viz is not really any better
- First salty dip of 2021
- It nearly was it, I reckon that is it now...
- Surely that must be it.....
- Chilly, chilly, chilly
- 2020 Target Achieved at Lady Hole!
- Bit of a cheeky one!
- You can tell winter is coming.........
- Howick and Sinatra!
- What a tosheroon and indeed what is a tosheroon?
- Have I found where the Lions Mane Jellies go to die?
- It's all topsy-turvy!
- It's clearing.....slowly
- A busy day diving
- Club Med on the North Side of Beadnell Point
- Long may it continue!
- An anomaly that I didn't know about!
- What a day, what a dive!
- I'm ahead of the game...........again!!
- This local site is moving up in my list of favourites
- The calm after the storm.......
- It only looked like a bit of bilge pipe.....continued
- North Side of Beadnell Point and was the vis as good?
- Knacker Hole, the gift that keeps giving!
- It only looked like a little bit of bilge pipe
- Back in....again....and the vis!!!
Latest Photographs


Once inside there is plenty of room to move about without many intact bulkheads you'd struggle to loose your buddy too!
On the southern side the edge is under-cut close to the deep gutter, with various critters living in the space under the rock
Wreckage from SS Loch Leven which foundered without the loss of life, not an oft dived site but very nice scenery plus rust!
An atmospheric (arty-farty) shot showing one of the large overhangs on the North side of this site.
Not sure if this is hull or bent deck, it is on the Point side of you in the main gully at the shore end, always a blue fiend or two in residence but careful as there are always fishing weights and lines in this vicinity.
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) doing 'cute' the reason loads of divers visit the islands
Side shot all done and pre-mounting.
Everywhere that you look the bottom isn't bedrock, it is formed from sections of ship.
A general topographical shot, there are several large stone pinnacles on the site, the largest rising maybe 4m from the seabed and with a circumference of 50m. They do degrade over time as they are formed from a softish rock and do receive a battering every year from Southerly and Easterly storms. They are however perfect lobster ground with their huge number of cracks and crevices!
Fishing lines criss-crossing the bottom, not ideal for divers of aquatic animals......
Until you reach the bottom 'proper' in about 25m of water which is gravel and sand for ever....
Until we were lens to nose, so to speak!
The general topography...... the rocks are not as smooth as you may expect considering the considerable tidal forces but the surfaces are smothered with various filter feeders which thrive in the oft moving flow!
On one particular stone there were loads of Candy striped flatworms (Prostheceraeus vittatus), not sure why as adjacent areas were devoid.