Wrasse & Rants

Two Days, Two Very Different Dives

All week the forecast for Bank Holiday weekend in Cornwall has been dire, dire and yet more…dire. It changed every couple of hours but never really veered away from wind and rain from Thursday through til Monday. The only upside I could see was that I didn’t have to drive for 5 hours to sit [...]

Lovely Lizard

*This is a blog from last summer i didn’t post at the time as it wasn’t finished, but I might as well now* After a slighly stressful week C & I got the chance to join a bunch of friends for a couple of dives off Celtic Cat. The weather was pretty terrible, with some wind [...]

It has been a while!

Okay, so I have been rather slack for the last 9 months over adding to this blog, but I promise to make an effort from now on. To summarise, the bits that have been missed……. Trip to the Galapagos Islands for 10 days of liveaboard action, inlcuing 5 days up at Wolf & Darwin. More sharks [...]

Wreck of the Persier

A quick montage of some video clips taken on a dive on the wreck of the Persier in June. We dived from Endeavour, out of Plymouth and the wreck had its usual plethora of poor cod and bib, plus spider crabs, velvet swimmers and wrasse. The viz was very good and [...]

Sea Hare

Sea hares are marine gastropods. This little beauty was found with two others, who were mating, in the eel grass beds in the Helford Estuary. Sea hares are hermaphrodites and form mating chains, so no doubt this one was on its way to or from the occasion. They are herbivores and allegedly the seaweed they [...]