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Leopard Spotted Goby (thorogobius ephippiatus) the knack is getting them to stay still, lots of phtographs come out as a puff of silt and a tail.
A - It started with a bit of wood on the beach to the North of Bamburgh
This is a section of I guess superstructure where the plate has long since been bashed/rusted away. There are plenty of bits like this around the site but this one, at the inshore end of the main gully, is oddball as it 'sits up' meaning that any photos can be a bit more interesting as you can get underneath as per this shot.
This Pink (or Northern) Prawn (Pandalus montagui) was being actively stalked by a Common Lobster (Homarus Gammarus), you can see the lobbies claws!
I also had the cascabel end engraved, a nice touch I thought.
If you want to head into the wreck this is one of the access points!
I think that this is part of the range-finder arrangement which was located on the conning tower, basically the wider apart the two sighting positions , the wider the angle and the more accurate the range calculations!
Sponges tend to have colonised kelp by late in the season, I think that this particular sponge is Stelletta lactea but I could be wrong.
An atmospheric (arty-farty) shot showing one of the large overhangs on the North side of this site.
I was trying to show how much sand had been scoured out of the iste, you can see here that there is a section of shale wall that's maybe fifty centimeters high where there was no weed hence it was covered prior to the last storms.
Harbour Crab (Liocarcinus depurator), quite a common critter but usually very skitterish and keen to be out of the way.
I just dropped outside of the hull at this point as I was 'bored', hopefully some sense of scale for both vis and wreck size
One of my regular buddies, Hud coming out at the bottom, to be greeted with a flash!
A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), this one was in a strange part broken shell so you could see its 'soft' backend.
Still at the stern section, exterior plate with holes, any brass has long, long gone
All of the time keep an eye open for Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) they sting and the tentacles are a few meters long, always approach from up-tide!
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!
If you look carefully at shots of Yewglen you will see that she had a pair of rubbing strakes welded onto the side of he hull, another positive bit of identification!
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