Duo-Divers

Start heading west and you get to hard ground, in this case a paving of doleritc limestone cracked into almost cobble shapes.....no it isn't a Roman Road!

I - And after lots of investigation into various oils I opted for high quality Danish Oil rather than Tung oil or similar

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

Starting near the stern, this is the top of the steering assembly and the guy here is thinking 'how do I get in?'

The head of a Greater Pipefish (Syngnathus acus)

A Marbled swimming crab (Liocarcinus marmoreus), very similar to the velvet swimming crab, maybe a touch lighter in colour

Looking along the wreckage of the Mistley, you can see the ribs or joints on the bottom.

To have a swim and try to........

There are more and more Bull Huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris) in the area and this one was relatively lively and wouldn't let me get close for a photograph.

A very scenic dip with dead mans fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) covering hard rock with boulders in some of the larger gullies.

J - After a few coats it started to look the part

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.

A moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) another common species that doesn't sting so you can get up close and personal without being concerned about needing your buddy to pee on the stings!

Photo 2 and still squabblin' the pair of Lobsters (Homarus gammarus) arguing over a hidey hole and not a particularly good one, basically a rock over one of the cracks which run down the flat face of the South Side of beadnell Point.

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.

The common edible crab (cancer pagarus) you tend to get only smaller ones in shallow water but there are still plenty of them about.

As is my wont a scenic shot of the bows.

Wreckage from SS Loch Leven which foundered without the loss of life, not an oft dived site but very nice scenery plus rust!

A sea lemon (Archidoris pseudoargus) you see quite a few of these and the trick is to approach slowly so they are unawre of your presence and leave their flowery gills out and in the water. Once again I was unsucessful!