Falmouth 19-21st July 2002


After his great trip down to Exmouth last year, Mike led us down South West again. Even further this time, down to Cornwall to dive both the south and north coasts, the weather Didn't let us get to the north. As your'll see from the pictures we had good vis and the wildlife, particularly anemones, was plentiful. In fact I may have overdone the anemones. The trip had perfect weather and Falmouth is an easy town to stay in and dive from, so loads of thanks to Mike for his considerable efforts in setting up the trip. As usual to see all the pictures and captions click on the first thumbnail and then 'next preview' to progress. Sorry about the annoying ads.

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Dawn trying to find some bare rock
I_000107.JPG 		I suspect they spend a while feeding with their arms extended and then contract to digest what they've caught.
I_000110.JPG 		The orange anemone family on holiday
I_000111.JPG 		A couple of varieties of elegans anemones
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A sheet of orange jewels
I_000115.JPG 		Orange and purple jewels
I_000118.JPG 		Yellow/pink jewels
I_000122.JPG 		Another damn urchin
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Jewels covering the rocks down at ~20m
I_000125.JPG 		Anemones at war
I_000126.JPG 		Elegans anemones
I_000127.JPG 		A border dispute in jewel world
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Purple jewels
I_000133.JPG 		A big pillock, sorry pollack
I_000136A.JPG 		Orange Plumose
I_000140.JPG 		Orange plumose
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Unusual purple elegans anemones
I_000145.JPG 		Yet more jewels
I_000149.JPG 		A pair of marbled wrasse?
I_000155.JPG 		A pair of Ballan wrasse
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Karen, on guard to protect her drysuit from trampling.
I_000173.JPG 		A mermaids purse, a dogfish egg case
I_000181.JPG 		A crash landed (dying) Rhizostoma Octopus jellyfish, nearly a metre long
I_000186.JPG 		A candy stripe flatworm, on the Peterson
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The gate of Pendennis Castle
I_000205.JPG 		The Tudor keep within the castle grounds
I_000211.JPG 		The castle with 2 Tudor relics having a sit down outside
I_000212.JPG 		Suspect 'educational' diarama a go-go
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Artichokes on the Cornish Riviera
I_000241.JPG 		Brittle stars, no wonder they give people the creeps
I_000256.JPG 		Jewel Anemones on the Epsilon
I_000265.JPG 		Could you fit anymore jewel anemones on this piece of wreckage?
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Feeding in the mush disturbed by divers
I_000275.JPG 		A shy conger
I_000277.JPG 		The dive deck of Cornish Diving's Under Pressure
I_000280.JPG 		Not your typical dive boat at all.
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Rob Spray.