Duo-Divers

The top of the Point is battered with wave and tide which makes it attractive for filter feeders such as barnacles which are securely anchored but weeds, well it is difficult but there are plenty of the 'bootlace' weeds which I guess are ideally shaped to apply minimal forces to the roots.

It's always a good idea to keep looking up when swimming close to the rock-face as you will get shoals of baitfish, be that 'brit' or sandeels swimming around and if your luck is in you may see them being attacked by predators, be that avian or piscine!

Part of the engine assembly, in this case a con rod on the main shaft, not easy to get a sense of scale but it's B----I----G.

A common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), I just couldn't get it to stay still to get a shot of it's back end!

A Lobster (Hamarus gammarus) I extracted him to show my buddy how to do the deed! 

The geology of the site comprises of small steep sided gullies, fissured into the reef

You do need sharp eyes as frequently all that is visible, poking through tiny pockets of sand, are the stainless steel grip leads.

Even more bits from the broken up boiler.......

The carriage was quite good once assembled and oiled with Tung oil......a more matt finish than Danish oil

The harbout outer wall, submitted for a competition, who knows?

A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), she was sitting on-top of a rock pretending to be weed but had the 'wrong' colouration, the skin texture was right though!

This is the other side of the same assembly.......

Not the greatest but a Sea Comb, probably a Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia plies) or at least that is what I have always called em when anyone asks! I like watching the little bits down the side change colour as they move, a very interesting little critter, I should take a bit of matt black plastic to try and get a photograph of one that is clearer.

The 'hump' of anchor chain

A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!

A view into the propellor shaft, simply taking a bearing along the shaft and follow over the sand and you will reach the other part of the wreck

A Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), this one was hiding in his hole and almost attached to my camera by a piece of string.....as the camera got close he retreated into his hole!

Eat my camera set-up!!

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

Another arty shot of the stringy like Bootlace Weed (Chorda filum) that is found in lower inter-tidal water. Apparently quite tasty too!

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Bits of MV Yewglen wedged and jammed into the Little Rock