Dorset October 4-7th '02


Perhaps the final fling for the boat this year, 8 club members were joined by ex-member Michael Worsley on our long weekend to Dorset. We stayed at the Durdle Door caravan site and launched from Portland - it was a Spring tide weekend and the slip was easier there than Kimmeridge. Our first day was boat free at Swanage pier and then we had 3 days diving off the coat around Lulworth and Worbarrow. As usual click on the first thumbnail and then click next preview to move through all the pictures.

Swanage Pier, 196m long apparently
P1010006.JPG 		About 8m wide
P1010008.JPG 		The stone building is the gents toilet. The steps down are just behind it
P1010009.JPG 		Divers Down - the on pier dive shop. They don't sell much apart from air.
P1010010.JPG 		Duncan and Bob
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David and Tracey, apparently caught in a whirlpool
P1010014.JPG 		Bob
P1010016.JPG 		Clearly a John Dory but we got better views from the water
P1010020.JPG 		Dawn beneath the pier
P1010024.JPG 		One of the piers legs
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Fish and kelp beneath the pier
P1010029.JPG 		What are these little green fish?
P1010031.JPG 		Snakelocks anemone
P1010032.JPG 		A small wrasse
P1010034.JPG 		Tompot Blenny
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Tompot blenny under the pier
P1010039.JPG 		Paisley encrusting sponge
P1010042.JPG 		Fish milling around waiting to be caught by the fishermen at the end.
P1010047.JPG 		The clear view to the surface
P1010049.JPG 		Sand eels
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There must have been several of them about as we saw them all over.
P1010057.JPG 		What a spikey fish! The batteries were too weak to power the screen on the camera so I just had to point and hope.
P1010058.JPG 		Some of the others were more silvery
P1010059.JPG 		Someone suggests a mushroom lasagne
P1010060.JPG 		A silty velvet swimmer by night
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The only good one of this cuttlefish
P1010068bigtweakcontcrop.JPG 		A crab plays with discarded fishing line.
P1010072.JPG 		A (very) Small Cuttlefish, the background is grains of sand!
P1010081sh.JPG 		A (very) Small Cuttlefish, the background is grains of sand!
P1010084.JPG 		A (very) Small Cuttlefish, the background is grains of sand!
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A (very) Small Cuttlefish, the background is grains of sand!
P1010087.JPG 		A (very) Small Cuttlefish, the background is grains of sand!
P1010087crop640.JPG 		The boat causing grief(!?) to caravanners
P1010092.JPG 		The mighty minibus - spent 600 miles hauling the boat.
P1010093.JPG 		The latest wonderbra!
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Durdle Door at night
P1010102.JPG 		Durdle door by day
P2Coastal17.JPG 		The crew speed past Durle Door, Left to right - Michael, David, Duncan, Christina, Dawn, Craig, Tracey and Bob.
P2Coastal20.JPG 		A clear sky over Portland minutes later
P2Coastal27.JPG 		Michael resting
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Bob strikes a pose in front of the 'Secret Harbour'
P2Coastal30.JPG 		Dawn and friend
P2Coastal34.JPG 		Ted the crab
P2Coastal35.JPG 		Christina happily killing things
P2Coastal37.JPG 		Discipline breaks down at sea
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Rob Spray.