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Title: Anchor Point 07/09/08
Description: Nice day and good vis with an abundance of Lions Mane Jellyfish (any only two of our club got stung). Lots of interesting life on the reef.
Number of photos: 35
PhotoSet taken/created by: nand_ / markcra
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Title: A-Frames 29/08/08
Description: Awesome 88min dive with a max of 13.5m (a shallow bimble by our standards). Good evening for it with no wind and no rain, some ambient light but there was a cloudy layer down to 7m which blocked most of it out. Below 7m visibility was around 8m. Lots of small life, most of which was happy to sit still until the camera was turned to it (damn those pesky leopard spotted gobies, I swear they're teasing me).
Number of photos: 37
PhotoSet taken/created by: nand_ / markcra
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Title: Conger Alley 22/08/08
Description: Friday night heading off at 3pm we can get up to Loch Long with enough time to fit two dives in. First dive Gordon and I managed 63mins with a max depth of 21.4m. We buzzed straight past the reef and off the other side onto a barren slope. Well, almost barren, there were discarded shells and the odd crab or fish about to take a look at. We turned and found the reef again and picked our way up the reef looking under all the boulders. Eventually we found one with the tail of a conger and traced it's likely route to the head, hiding in another hole. We moved on to find the big lobster I had seen here before but it retracted into it's lair pretty quick and we could see any other entrances/exits to catch another glimps. We did, however, find a nice big conger eel and watched as it swam all the way out of it's hole, over and around the boulders and head first into another hole. The first time I've seen a conger completely out of their little caves. It was close enough to touch but they're not the sort of thing you want to get angry. I was having too much fun to get the camera out and miss any of it. Second dive we were in for 40mins at a max of 12.2m. My torch had ran out of battery so I hung back and let Gordon search the boulders for Congers. I think he saw one or two but I only ever saw one (least I think it was a conger, it was less than a foot long and had a fin from its dorsal all the way back to it's tail, top and bottom). We saw a lot of edible crabs and a fair few dead ones too (understandable with the number of congers around), some in various stages of decomposing and some which had been broken open and hoovered clean by various fish and invertibrates.
Number of photos: 12
PhotoSet taken/created by: nand_ / markcra
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Title: Conger Alley - 07/08/08
Description: Awesome vis and an abundance of life made this one of my best dives. We saw no less than 6 young conger eels and one older conger. A whole host of Edible Crabs and three or four balin wrasse dodging around us. We also saw a massive Lobster, my first proper sighting of a lobster (other than in a tank) and this was some size!
Number of photos: 34
PhotoSet taken/created by: nand_ / markcra
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Title: Gortien Point 29/06/08
Description: After our boat trip in the Clyde was cancelled due to adverse weather we took the Dunoon ferry and headed down to Gortien Point. One enjoyable deep (33m) and long (66min) dive. Loads to see, the ground was carpeted in places with brittle starfish. Crabs, squat lobsters, plumrose anemones, a few dragonets and a pipefish. We watched (and video'd) a large orange starfish moving at a fair speed across the sand with all the brittle stars in it's path moving to avoid it. I also found a tiny edible crab which was acting like a hermit and trying to hide in a discarded snail shell (damn I wish I had taken a photo).
Number of photos: 11
PhotoSet taken/created by: nand_ / markcra
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Title: St Catherines Reef 22-06-08
Description: Out with Glasgow South ScotSAC for George's dry suit dive.
Number of photos: 11
PhotoSet taken/created by: nand_ / markcra
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