Uk Diving » Seasearch East in June » Sheringham 1

The Sheringham chalk gullies are well known but we had only dived them as a drift by boat from Weybourne. Adrian from Learn Scuba in Lowestoft was one of the people who told us that you could simply dive them from the beach at Sheringham itself, and he was right! The gullies run past the town just beyond the ends of the groynes, when the water is clear you can see them. On this occasion the water wasn't very clear and we were corralled by a net after we went in just below the Cliff Road car park. Still it proved you can make a Seasearch survey in suspect vis (about 0.5m) and whetted our appetites for more! We met up with Wiliiam and walked down to the Lifeboat station to look for other entry points and it looks as though below the Esplanade in front of the Lifeguard station is one of the best.

The Cliff Road car park lives up to its name, there's a...	...but it's close to the steps down to the beach, which...	At least they lead down to a huge ice cream, go to the...	This is what optimism looks like, first try of this smart...	Shredded Carrot sponge - Amphilectus fucorum
Beadlet anemone - Actinia equina	Well the Velvet Swimming crabs - Necora puber - were as...	A Northern prawn - Pandalus montagui - must be on holiday	Well they look happy enough, guess which one is soaked...	Did you guess me? First prize!
In truth the water in the suit was so warm I didn't mind...	The other spot to enter is the East end of the Esplanade	The chalk starts just beyond the end markers on the groynes	If you want you can go in just in front of the...	There's even a wreck off the beach in Sheringham, its...
...so it's not much of a dive... but makes a good story.	At the West end of the promenade you can vist the...

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