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Hanging doing deco
All placed together and nearly done!
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.....
On the West side of the site, towards the North end. It looks ideal for scallops but no sign of any or indeed empty predated shells.
The results of another successful dip on Mistley, more non-ferrous rubbish
Back quarter shot all done and pre-mounting.
One of my regular buddies, Hud coming out at the bottom, to be greeted with a flash!
This one was probably killed by a dolphin, we get quite a few white sided dolphins in the area and despite the popular public conception about friendly dolphins they actively kill porpoises so you rarely if ever see dolphins and porpoise in close proximity
Football sea squirts (Diazona violacea), again lots of these very simple animals inhabit the outside of the hull of SS Rondo.
A Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) this one is in a winkle shell and was quite happy trying to stare me down, cheeky little blighter!
'Cut me and do I not bleed'.... Alternatively 'Clout me and do I not rust'
The common nudibranch Polycera quadrileata, if there are 'lots' of protrubences at the head then chances are it's a faeroenis!
An arty shot of a Spider Crab (Maja brachydactylus), can you spot the eye?
A couple of female Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta) I think that they are in nesting mode, certainly the males are bright and flighty!
The engine block, the shot-line is tied to this
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.
Go out, south, and the bottom turns to big rocks surrounded by grit. Unfortunately it's all very mobile as you will see from the wave form of the sand, this means no scallops!
An oyster clamped down on the pier. there were quite a few on the pier but I didn't spot any on rocks under the water.......
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