Devon - September 05


By hook or crook our Farnes trip ended up in Devon and got off to an odd start when Jurassic coast divers took us out for a boat trip round the bay and bottled out of letting us dive... With help and advice from Jules Elliot who joined us with his brother Mike who many of you will know we raced to Teignmouth and dived from there.

We dived the Galicia and the Bretagne which were both entertaining but my favourite dive of the weekend was Walcott Caves where we found a friendly cuttlefish.

Thanks to Bob for arranging the trip and again to Julian for ensuring it included diving!

Hermit crab with polyp covered shell
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Well there had to be at one Plumose Anemone!
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Lonely lemon lightbulb
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Feeding fanworm
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Velvet swimming crab back from a night on the tiles
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Small Tompot Blenny
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Family group of lightbulb tunicates
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Claire on the Galicia
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Devonshire cup coral
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Dozing dogfish
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You can see the hard bumps on his skin
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Sexy dogfish!
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Dawn and tired friend
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Baby Bibb
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Dawn and reclining dogfish
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Dancing starfish
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Pink Sea Fan
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Patch of fried egg anemones
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Elegant Anemones
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Jewel Anemones
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A double pink Sea fan
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Red fan worm below some sleeping jewel anemones
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Large Tompot Blenny - funny how their antlers don't grow
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Dawn on the Bretagne
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Lobster on the Bretagne
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Big crab down a small hole
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Blue rayed limpets - separated by a fence of hydroids
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Our single nudibranch of the weekend - a Tritonia Lineata
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Devonshire cup coral
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Dragonet sun bathing on mussels
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Frilly lace mussel
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Tiny common cuttlefish
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Halfway through his colour display
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Blending in with the sand - thats not a big finger!
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Partway through his rolling banded display
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Taking cover behind a hand
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Cuttlefish eggs (we could see little cuttlefish inside)
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Neatly parked bluerayed limpets
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Hermit crab watching the skies
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Giant Dawn lies in wait for the boat
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Rob Spray.