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Carpe Diem launched and on her mooring, ready for an early start.
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An edible crab - a big one at more than 9" across its shell.
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Football Sea Squirt
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A few of these around - had to keep an eye out to avoid the stingers.
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A brightly coloured nudibranch.
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Rather fascinating - I've not seen this type before.
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Another jellyfish to occupy me on the safety stop.
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Lunch on a beach on Jura.
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My buddy Alison.
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A Sand Mason Worm - so called because of the sand shell it builds for itself.
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Crab.
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Starfish.
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Starfish - I took this one to contrast camera settings with the next one...
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...same starfish, different camera settings so this time yousee some of the terrain in the distance.
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An urchin with all it's feeding tubes out.
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An urchin with all it's feeding tubes out.
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The second Octopus of the trip but the first I got a picture of. At first I thought it wouldn't co-operate, as it swam off...
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...then it settled down and posed nicely.
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Finally, the shot I wanted! Thanks for spotting it and pointing it out Alison!
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Last dive of the weekend in the narrows at Taynish. Vast numbers of brittlestars and a lot of Snakelocks Anemones.
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There were also a huge number of varieties of seaweed, and of course my buddy Alison.
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Weed, snakelocks anemone, brittlestars...
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In places there were large beds of mearle (Scotlands only hard coral).
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Being only a few metres deep, it was lovely and light and colourful (even without a torch/flash).
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There were fabulous sponges of every shape and colour.
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Another Snakelocks Anemone.
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Yet more varieties of seaweed as the dive comes to an end in the shallows.
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