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 | North Devon July 08
After being cancelled last year this summer's wasn't all wine and roses either, cue bibical rain! After a couple of days of National trust sight seeing we eventually found the the vis around North Devon hadn't recovered... so our last day was a trip to Lundy - where we had much better vis than on our trip in May. Many thanks to Sally for arranging the trip and acting as our minder for a few days of surface tourism too.. |
 | Norfolk July 08 - Part 1
Our early July haul from Norfolk wasn't as large as we'd hoped as the weather has been 'mixed'. We got in a dive on the Vera on the day our exhibition launched in the Salthouse and Sam and Tony from Great Yarmouth bravely put up with Rob and freaky downpours so we have a couple of diving galleries. |
 | Norfolk Omnibus Edition - June 08 digest
June was a very busy month... We held a Seasearch Observer course with 19 keen divers and (unfortunately) no diving, a Nudibranch ID course with Jim Anderson who travelled down from Scotland to tutor and still (frustratingly) no diving and then we were invited out by Mick from NEDSAC and all of a sudden there was vis off Cley and impossible numbers of nudibranches off Sea Palling. At last the East coast was open again! These galleries show all of that... |
 | Lundy - Seasearch Lundy MarineID Course and diving - May 08
We jumped at the chance to join Sally's trip to Lundy, arriving fresh from Holland in time for a primer course on local marine ID. The course was hosted by Ilfracombe SAC who were a great bunch and dived from Obsession II. |
 | Plmouth - Seasearch Sponge Course and diving - May 08
It's always a pleasure to join Sally's well organised trips, the conditions in Devon are usually better than those up in East Anglia and you really can't find a more authorative source than Bernard Picton. It was a very enlightening and great fun.The microscope sessions at the MBA revealed the amazing, beautiful selection of shapes which sponges create to form skeletons but give little hint at from the outside. |
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Plymouth - November 07 Sally having some new seafans to investigate seemed like a great excuse for a trip to Devon - until we rolled up at Fort Bovisand to find the MOD police had locked the gates! But everything got sorted and we got 4 good dives in, with a free rollercoaster ride back from the first! Many thanks to Sally and Danny for a really enjoyable weekend. |
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Norfolk - Fun and Seasearch off Cley and Rosalie - October 07
We'd never dived this late in Norfolk before but the sea stayed flat and fun as we managed a dive weekend and a Seasearch Observer practical session. These six galleries include rare wide angle shots of the Rosalie, Vera and even one of Dawn - so Seasearch students know who their leader is ;-) |
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Cley
Exhibition Weekend - September 07
Norfolk Wildlife Trust publicising the Marine Bill was the ideal opportunity to introduce their mainly bird watching visitors to photos of the exotic wildlife which lurks just off shore. We couldn't resist fitting in a dive too! |
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North
Pembroke - September 07 The Urchin survey seemed ages ago and it was great to see a lot of familiar faces from that adventure. Kate had (as usual) got the world organised on her side and we had a great time and will be back - if they'll have us! |
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Salcombe
Bay from Plymouth - August 07 Although we had been due to dive North Devon in June the had weather scuppered that plan so Sally (Seasearch Coordinator for Devon) worked hard to fit in another trip. We dived out of Fort Bovisand on their cool, black RIB, running around towards Salcombe to sites including Prawle Point and Persier Reef. We stayed in the Mountbatten centre which turned out to be inexplicably empty but handy for both Bovisand and food on the Sound front. |
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Norfolk
Twin Wreck Shore Dive Challenge Take 2 - The Vera and Rosalie again
August 07 The week before everyone had been busy but for this trip we had quite a gang ready to try the twin wreck challenge. Even better we had a good number of our Seasearch people who were ready to do some of their assessed reports and get well on the way to being fully qualified observers! It was a momentous visit as we saw the first Tompot Blenny reported off Norfolk (as far as we know) and I finally got some decent pictures of Bib! See our guide page if you want to take the challenge yourself :-) |
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Norfolk
Twin Wreck Shore Dive Challenge - The Vera and Rosalie August 07 Shore diving sounds easy, and the diving bit is... but even the shortest walk is complicated by carrying 35kgs of equipment. Walking across gravel makes it even more fun! However it was well worth the effort and no means boat there's no need to limit your dive time. Both wrecks have slack enough for at least an hour's dive most weekends - we were greedy and had an hour and a half :-) We have added a guide page for anyone who fancies taking the challenge themselves :-) |
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Cley
next the Sea, Norfolk July 07 We can't believe we waited so long to dive the Vera at Cley next the Sea, it was packed with pipefish and crawling with crabs. Our local half dozen were joined by a group who had come down from Nottingham. |
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Skomer
Urchin Survey, Pembrokeshire Jun 07 We really enjoyed taking part in the Urchin survey in the Skomer Marine Reserve. It was our first stab at practical underwater surveying and the discipline of making several passes over the same terrain certainly made for a thorough creature hunt. Many thanks to Kate Lock for organising the event. |
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Lyme
Regis - Sea fans and sunset coral, Dorset Jun 07 It was a pleasure to return to Lyme Regis, doubly so since we dived from John Walker's boat Miss Pattie. John helped the group with their mission to assess the impact of scallop dredging on the seabed fauna, particularly the pink sea fan - the UKs largest coral. We found fans and sadly evidence of damage but there was no shortage of other wildlife and a chance to see sunset corals.See the See the Seasearch news page for more information |
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Weybourne,
Norfolk July 06 Weybourne in North Norfolk is one of our favourite dive venues, there's a small wreck and some gullies which are both packed with wildlife. Sadly some club politics mean it was our last club trip but we were able to savour our memories of better times whilst hunting down nudibranches. |
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Southwold June 05 |
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E30 submarine I June 05 |
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E30 submarine II June 05 |
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Exmouth, Devon September 05 |
 | Felixstowe, Suffolk June 02 |
 | Falmouth, Cornwall July 02 |
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Dorset October 02 |
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Dorset April 04 |
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Dorset April 05 |
 | The Farnes September 01 (no diving pictures) |
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The Farnes September 03 |
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The Farnes September 04 |
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Littlehampton, Sussex May 02 |
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Lyme Regis 03 |
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Lyme Regis 04 |
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Portland, Dorset April 03 |
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Pembroke West Wales June 02 |
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Pembroke West Wales 04 |
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Scapa Flow, Orkney September 02 |
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Wells, Norfolk September 05 |
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Weybourne, Norfolk July 03 |
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Weybourne, Norfolk July 04 |
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Weybourne, Norfolk August 04 |
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Weybourne, Norfolk July 05 |
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Weybourne, Norfolk July 06 |
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Cley next the Sea, Norfolk July 07 |
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Stoney 12th Apr02 - Ancient history for the curious |
 | Stoney 28th Jun 02 - More old stuff |
| There are a few more trips to be added but the old Falmouth, Felixstowe and Stoney Cove galleries should keep you happy for a while... |