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[shermarama]

I:

• went to Plymouth to do diving: we did some rather swelly dives and some rather dark dives and I saw a pagurus prideaux (hermit crab to you) with an adamsia carciniopados (cloak anenome) on it, which was pretty cool, and we got to go to the Eddystone, which is like the ultimate design-a-diver's-fishtank dive. And then we won the pub quiz! Although we only got one of the two answers for the jackpot so we didn't win £125. Never mind. 
• went to an actual gig last night, some proper old-school hardcore called Magrudergrind, all the way from Washington DC, playing a short enough set to even prevent Wayne from getting bored
• am going right to the pig's mouth of Wales, to go diving with the Brighton club on their annual club holiday. There will be caravan accommodation, walking back from pubs down dark cliff paths at night, lots of launching and recovering boats from beaches, at least possibly some seals, and according to the weather forecast, rain. I have packed sandals, waterproofs and everything inbetween. It'll be fun, honest. See you next week!

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[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

PIG MOUTH!

That is all. I hope you have a lovely time.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Sounds good - enjoy!

Any chance of you getting some underwater photography?

[shermarama]

I think there'll be some going on, some of the club members have cameras, but I don't even own a digital camera (apart from my phone) never mind all the housing doodah, lenses, filters, lights... Underwater photography costs a large bunch of money.

[shermarama]

Woo! I think we will.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Just come back from three days of lovely scenic diving in the Farnes with sealtastic action. I also had three different buddies having three different panics at the surface with me (two caused by equipment failure). I am Mr Incident Pit.

I'm not sure I'd recognise a cloak anemone though I have finally got my eye in for spotting nudibranchs and blue rayed limpets.

[shermarama]

Seals! There were some around in Skomer, including coming close into the beach, but not coming to see anyone underwater.

The cloak anenome was remarkably easy to notice - the purple spots are a giveaway.

[steer.livejournal.com]

They're such unpredictable animals. I had one dive where I breathed down about fifty bar of air racing round my dive buddy in circles with a seal biting my fins and playing "slow chase" (like you play chase with a five year old who will cry if you catch them -- the seal was definitely giving me a chance). Other dives you'd see only fleeting glimpses and then they'd be all around you when you surfaced.

Purple spots eh? I'll look out.

I finally managed to find blue-rayed limpets which I've been looking out for for a couple of years and then couldn't stop seeing them after that.

[shermarama]

I haven't seen the limpets, but I totally had my eye in for nudibranchs this trip. Crystal sea-slugs everywhere, including some remarkably large ones.

[steer.livejournal.com]

I need to get my nudi-vision better tuned, I've only just started to be able to see them.