Temperate diving » Holland May 07 » Non cuttlefish pictures

Although the cuttlefish are the main attraction there's plenty of other life to see and lots of easy dive spots to explore.

My new toy! An Olympus E-330 with a 50mm macro lens and...	Typical Dutch scenery - covered in mussels, barnacles,...	The common lobster - Homarus gammarus - is as common in...	See here's another one, looks like he fancies being a...	This shore crab - Carcinus maenus - has a couple of...
This larger common hermit crab is Pagurus bernhadus - its...	What's most worrying, the trashed camera or the spaced...	The harbour crab - Liocarcinus depurator - trying to look...	There's quite a variation in the appearance of the black...	The shallows were alive with Black Gobies - Gobius niger
Many of the males were guarding eggs, so this may be a...	Male black gobies guard their clutches of several...	You can see the eyes of the young fish which are on the...	This may walk and talk like a jellyfish but it's a...	The free swimming, free loving reproductive stage in the...
This one is an Aequorea forskalea	The business end of a sea lemon - Archidoris pseudoargus...	Prawns can try to look inscrutable but since you can see...	A moon jellyfish - Aurelia aurita - under the Zeelandbrug	There were quite a few of them pulsing in the shallows
This shameless beast is displaying its sexual organs for...	Dawn smiles as she knows there's a 'biobox' within easy...	Another black goby, this one has lovely red eyes	One year I'm going to take in a sample tank so I don't...	They are ctenophores not jellyfish, though they don't...
Lobsters often pose for portraits, the area is a nature...	Edible crabs - Cancer pagarus - have appealing eyes and...	A common prawn - nice yellow knees	The Oosterschelde is alive with them - there must be a...	Crabs too! Another harbour crab - Liocarcinus depurator
This Sargatiogeton lacerata anemone should be looking...	These mild mannered slugs - Aeolidiella glauca - were out...	The muppet hairdo won't be enough to save this anemone if...	...by the Aeolidiella glauca slugs...	...see!
Though since the anemones live in sand a hunt across some...	The long legged spider crabs - Macropodia spp. - which...	Everyone's favourite pub arguement crab, the velvet...	The Butterfish or gunnel - Pholis gunnellus - enjoys...	How does a prawn look surprised with it's eyes already...
The common prawn's Latin name Palaemon serratus - refers...	We didn't see many Janolus cristata, so we hope there'll...

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