Slate-Ed - 17/10/2014

With both of us off work Fast Ed and I decided we'd north to the Slates, Loch Leven. This was Ed's first trip to the Slates since the fateful day in 2013 when we first met. Our plan was to dive the point in dive 1 and the bay in dive 2 at night. This was also Ed's first dive since being mounted and sexually assaulted by a seal the week before - he still bore the scars.

Diving round the point we saw lot's of fish. They included:

• Female cuckoo wrasse
• Ballan wrasse
• Rock cooks
• Mackerel
• Cod
• Bib
• Pollack

I even caught a glimpse of the male cuckoo wrasse, but it was towards the end of the dive and I couldn't chase it for a photo.  :(

The second dive (in the dark) saw a more varied selection of life, but it also saw me fill up my memory card (I'd forgotten to remove video from a previous dive). Fortunately Ed was able to photograph an excellent nudibranch, a scorpion fish and some other life too. I've not seen his snaps yet.

Seal stains

Lady cuckoo wrasse

Dead mans fingers

Feather star

Northern sunstar

Common sunstar

Cuttlefish

What's the Point? - 29/09/2014

The Zookeeper, the Mermaid, the Money Monster and I had planned to go to Gortien Point, but at the last gasp we changed our minds and headed to Anchor Point.

The Money Monster, a new character in my blogging adventure, is a rebreather diver and as a native french speaker - every bit the Jacques Cousteau of Glasgow's south side.

The site was ideal as the Money Monster had brought his temporary ward, Bertie the Labrador.

We did two dives the first to the right of the site and a second to the left for some fluffy photography, Although, it was only me and the Mermaid as the Zookeeper had a drysuit leak and the Money Monster had a cell error while preparing for dive two.

The vis was a pretty consistent 3-4m, which meant there was enough life to keep us interested. Including:

• sunstars
• seven armed starfish
• dogfish
• nudibranchs

Still experimenting with macros, I'll leave the pictures to do the talking. :)

Closed Anemone

Dogfish

Sunstar

Bloody Henry

Plumose Anemone

Feather stars

Lion's Mane

Nudibranchs

Hermit Crab

Nudibranch Eggs

Seven Armed Starfish

Featherstar

Bertie Playing