Duo-Divers

A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), the mother (?) keeping an eye on the young seals the reason loads of divers visit the islands

Head up the slope from the boilers in a south westerly direction and you will find a jumble of winches and machinery

Typical farne site, a 'wall' down to a slowly sloping rock and boulder bottom.

The softer compound rivets are also rotting away on this wreck

A 'bow shot', I try to get one of these on every wreck

More non-ferrous from Mistley and this time some golf balls for good measure!

A young and undecorated Decorator Crab, or technically a Long Legged Spider Crab (Macropodia rostrata) loads of em on SS Glanmire on weekend on 1st April.

A Long Clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa) this one had set up shop in an old broken bottle which I guess forms a good and secure home.

More bits in the jumble of machinery

The lower mounting position where the pin would fit with a wrist mounted compass to give some sort of scale

The sandstone bed-rock slowly steps up towards teh cliffs, in this case it is worn away in tiny steps, probably the equivalent to the layers that were laid down over time.

When the sand starts having odd cobbles dotted on it then you are reaching the end and expect to see boulders and kelp again!

A common starfish (Asterias rubens) attempting to open a small scallop, one of my mates Hud, is so bad at scalloping he looks for starfish feeding and then steals the scallop!

A scaling shot of the thinnest section, this one doesnt seem as tapered as others and may be a spar rather than mast......

A typical north east wreck scene, plates n bits on a hard bottom

Storm Emma or the Beast from the East, arguably the worst conditions I have witnessed at Beadnell, I was cut off for 3 days!

A substantial coupling!

The concreted in anchor, this is located on its own 'up' the gully on the seaward side of the Hopper rock

The machining was easy but the brass bits got everywhere, next time I will set up some sort of capture system

There are more and more dahlia anemone (Urticina felina) appearing on the site, I do worry that a hard winter storm will dislodge and kill most of them but hey!

Heading down the boulder slope for the starting point, good vis but don't go straight to the bottom, you will go round and round in a pit!

A rather bedraggled Sqaut Lobster (Galathea squamifera) sitting within a Dead-mans finger (Alcyonium digitatum) this one had no claws hence it had lost it's hole and was hiding away in a filter feeder, judging by it's general appearance and barnacle covered carapice I would think, not long of this world.