Duo-Divers

The gnomes garden......there are a few broken ones around too!

This is a top third shot of a Greater Spotted Dogfish, or Bull Huss or catshark or  Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) they are becoming a more common visitor every year.

Fan worms, (Bispira volutacornis) loads on this site and many others but getting close enough for a reasonable shot without having them snap shut can be a bit of a chore

Looking from the 'end' of the first reef out to sea. There is a band of sand then another line of rocks and reef

Despite the apparent lack of food there are large shoals of Perch

A small shellfish, probably some type of oyster. I took this photograph as I have never seen one before and thought it may be a 'foreign invader', it isn't!

Part of the wreck is covered in a large net, which hanging over the window looks quite nice.

Look carefully and you can see weights poking out!

The capstan on the fore-deck...again!

Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock

The rock face on 'The Hopper', its a straight drop into about 18m of water, with little or no weed, only a little kelp near the top of the face and then some filter feeders lower down. A lovely little site!

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!

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.

But get near the engine room and it is all a bit of a buggers muddle of blasted bits

Port side again

A view of the same boiler showing the steam pipes. I have never seen a huge amount of blue fiends living in the boiler which is odd, but whenever someone shots it with pots they fill up, so I guess that they live deep inside.....

K - So the next step was to find someone to make a base, I thought about mounting on four wooden legs but that was 'too vanilla' so we went to a local blacksmith