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Tubes from the broken up boiler.......
Move away from the face and you reach a jumble of boulders, some with dead-mans fingers
I messed around with the images as the three larger holes do have a look of 'The Scream' by Munch, what do you think?
A Sea-Hare (Aplysia punctata) these large nudibranch come in a variety of colours, depending I think on what they have been eating.
This is the remains of the wooden salvage dock that sank during operations, it's even less photogenic than the ship and connected via a length of blue poly-prop rope so that divers can go from one to the other in a single dive
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!
A Devonshire cup-coral (Caryophyllia smithii), there are loads of these multi-coloured critters on the wreckage
A Painted goby (Pomatoschistus pictus) these are really common and will follow you around looking for any morsels that may be disturbed, but try and get one to stay still long enough to get a photograph.......
If you want to head into the wreck this is one of the access points!
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was sitting out in the open.
Flat bits of plate, be that deck or hull are all over the site, I think they are deck as they are flat with very little in the way of thick metal ribs, but I do get things wrong.
The common edible crab (cancer pagarus) you tend to get only smaller ones in shallow water but there are still plenty of them about.
Three Sea Hares (Lepus marinus) in a bit of a stack. Their colour is defined by diet so the top one has been eating almost exclusively dulse whilst the other two have been eating some green stuff, most likely Sea Luttuce.
A small Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) in a discarded winkle shell, the bottom of the site is crawling with these critters, searching for food, squabbling with their brethern over shells and generally going about their daily business!
Wreckage from SS Mistley, in this case from near the stern. This structure was only eally 'thrown up' after storms a couple of winters ago!
A Crawfish or should that be Spiny Lobster, doesn't matter as it's the same thing (Palinurus elephas) I did half heartedly attempt and extraction but it was 'so-so' size and without implements I wouldn't have been able to extract a lobster and crab, hey-ho!
The business end of one of the secondary armament guns
A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was sitting out in the open.
Gas works!
A bent anchor from the South Side of Beadnell Point
Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!
Another 'arty-farty' this time in black and white to try and go all atmospheric
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