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Shore diving from East Runton is pretty easy. The chalk probably only 50m out and very shallow. The algae here is extremely lush and there are the remains of various old wooden jetties etc not far out.

Homo sapiens - Dave and Rob making the short swim across...	Probably a Dab - Limanda limanda - on the start of the...	Homo sapiens - Dawn looking out for boats	Homo erectus - speechless	We don't know what this stuff is... just wait til we go...
Homo erectus - finding parts of an old jetty	Ancula gibbosa - first time we've seen one of these in...	Ancula gibbosa - reaching for the sky	Perhaps a Dab - Limanda limanda - nuzzling some Bryopsis...	An extravangantly decorated Long Logged Spider crab -...
Scypha ciliata - Flask sponges	Actinia equina - a retracted Beadlet Anemone	Mysid spp - A Mysid or Opossum Shrimp, about 10mm long	Help! What is this stuff?	Galathea squamifera - Squat Lobster
Pagurus spp - Hermit Crab, wearing a Painted Top shell	A juvenile Harbour Crab - Liocarcinus deperator - cute...	Shore Crab - Carcinus maenas (pointed back legs - NOT...	Common Lobster - Homarus gammarus	An unknown sea squirt, the foreground is a Bryozoan crust
One of the greenish Shore crabs - Carcinus maenas	An emerging Beadlet Anemone - Actinia equina	Pleuronectes platessa - a Plaice	The eye of a Plaice - Pleuronectes platessa	Plaice - Pleuronectes platessa - there's supposed to be...
Cancer pagurus - Edible crab - trying to submerge in the...	A juvenile Edible Crab - Cancer pagurus - note the dark...	Cancer pagurus - little ones look brighter don't they?	Another Shore Crab - Carcinus maenas	One of the orangey Shore Crabs - Carcinus maenas, amongst...
Lanice conchilega - lots of Sand Masons	Squat Lobster - Galathea squamifera, on Bryozoan crust...	A Squat Lobster - Galathea squamifera and a Beadlet...	Squat Lobster - Galathea squamifera, on Sand Masons -...	A small (15mm) sponge Leucosolenia spp, Comb Weed - ...
An encrusting colonial sea squirt - Didemnum maculosum...	A Chiton spp - a mollusc with a jointed shell	Ancula gibbosa - the ornate plates on its rhinophores...	Ancula gibbosa - climbing over the feeding tentacles of a...

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