The Farnes, September 2004


David set us up a good weekend up North and we diced with some strong winds as every night we though we'd be blown out and every morning Davey smiled and welcomed us aboard Wavedancer... until the last (4th day) when gale forcasts called the diving off.

Thanks a lot to David for arranging everything, Paul for various catering heroics and Dawn for staying down on our octopus dive even though her drysuit legs were full of water.

As usual click on the first thumbnail and then 'next preview' to run through the whole slideshow.

There are pictures here from Catherine, David, Dawn and I. (P1=Catherine,IMG3=David, IMG8=Dawn)

Sunstar!!!!
IMG_3925.JPG 		Crying seal comes to Paul for comfort after meeting Mike and Martin
IMG_3939.JPG 		Paul is not comforting enough, so seal tries him for flavour
IMG_3964.JPG 		Prawns on parade
IMG_8394.JPG 		Creepy brittlestars oozing around
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Butterfish poses as snake on freshly baked dead mens fingers
IMG_8430.JPG 		Happy smiley squat lobster
IMG_8431.JPG 		One of the nudibranches that hid from David
IMG_8449.JPG 		Argh!
IMG_8474.JPG 		Less happy, but prettier squat lobster
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Catherine's octopus shot
P1010078.JPG 		David finally finds an animal he can focus on
P1010179.JPG 		School blancmange anemone!
P9170558.JPG 		Posing prawn
P9170617.JPG 		Argh! Get it off me! (decorator crab on Dawn's hand)
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Nobody had told Derek it was a formal party...
P9170775.JPG 		Paul and Mike miss their wives quite badly
P9180013.JPG 		Fingernail sized flatfish with little spines
P9180992.JPG 		Embarrassed octopus...
P9181015.JPG 		Remembers he left the gas on...
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Then remembers he isn't connected any more...
P9181033.JPG 		...and goes back to feeling embarrassed.
P9181036.JPG 		'Doto type' nudibranch, not sure which one...
P9181057.JPG 		Tiny wee hermit crab in fan worm tube
P9181095.JPG 		Dead mans nipple
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Starfish and sea urchin go head-to-head
P9181113.JPG 		Looking up a squirt's bottom, or down its throat, you decide.
P9181128.JPG 		Embarrassed prawn
P9181136.JPG 		Tiny scorpion fish cuddling a crab
P9181168.JPG 		Naked hermit crab (you may wish to avert your gaze)
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Blue rayed limpet in glorious technicolour
P9181200.JPG 		Grumpy old men
P9181223.JPG 		Gang bang!
P9191314.JPG 		Devonshire cup coral
P9191321.JPG 		Very nosey big wrasse
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Urchin!
P9191357.JPG 		Obese sea lemon
P9191366.JPG 		Sainsbury's dessert anemone
P9191394.JPG 		Dawn before her suit became less than dry
P9191442.JPG 		Limacia clavigera, or 'Bob' to his/her friends
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Depressed hermit sporting a tiny tube worm
P9191534.JPG 		Another squirt showing its frilly bottom
P9191536.JPG 		Dawn offers a sacrificial fin to a hungry seal
P9191559.JPG 		Two Polyceraquadrilineata on Membranipora membranacea (lunch)
P9191583.JPG 		Looks like its through a porthole, doesn't it?
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Rob Spray.