A few more from Today

Quite a few of the Red cushion star fish around on the gravel of the loch bed.

Small flat fish I chased half way around the loch until he stopped.
Red cushion star: Porania pulvillus
Red cushion star: Porania pulvillus

Another day in Locheport

I found a new dive site yesterday and decided to return with the camera. Entry is by a old stream bed and beach covered at high tides, but easy to walk down to at low, then a swim out and down. This is a shallow site only some 13 m at low tide, so plenty of light. The dive is then around the outer side of a small islet coming all the way around to the start point. It is a mixture of large rocks and boulders, then shingle where it meets the loch floor. Quite a bit of life around not non of the larger fish I saw the day before.

Red edible Crab
Red crab looking very un happy
Crab who I disturbed having diner, what ever it was eating it was quite big.
Marks in the Muddy bottom as I was returning to shore, so sort animal in the hole no doubt.
Field of Slender sea pens

A few more photographs which I had taken but not prepared for the web.

No diving today

Sunday and todays dive for some more photographs is off due to the weather, the wind has risen over night, fingers crossed for the next few days.

I have managed to get a few photographs worth showing out of the two dozen or so I took, I think I am going to have to work on the white balance a bit.

I had to take a photograph of a starfish. I think this one is doing pressups.
Field of anemones

Lobster found at bottom of reef, much to my shame :( when I got it back I found it was a berried female so I returned it back to the reef.
Lobster
Sea Snail
? Any idea anyone , some sort of sponge

Whilst diving a long sea loch on the island, I came across a nice boulder reef , I returned today with the camera and whilst the water was a bit darker than the day before I got a few more photographs of the local undersea world.