St Abbs & Eyemouth

My first diving trip in the UK after 7 months away, thanks to my friends at divetech and the services of MarineQuest. This was my first time on their new boat Silver Sky - and she seems to be every bit as comfortable as her sister North Star.

	A close up of the ubiquitous Urchin.
	There are plenty of large wrasse this late in the year. They seem quite curious about us.
	Little tufts of weed cling on to any space not occupied by dead mens fingers (the soft corals that adorn the wall in the background).
	The wrasse are getting bolder and closer.
	If you look up once you are in among the rock, you can see large pollack hanging in the currents.
	There are the remains of several wrecks just outside St Abbs harbour. Mostly just piles of metal.
	A few plates from a wreck still stand, but they are covered with life and almost indistinguishable from rock.
	A velvet swimming grab peers out of his hiding place.
	Another plate from a wreck, this one populated on both sides!
	A tiny spiny squat lobster wedged in a crack.
	A muvh bigger lobster - dinner anyone?
	Some mating velvet swimming crabs.
	I saw the leopard spotted goby, but I didn't notice the two squat lobsters lurking in the rocks until I got the picture on my computer!
	Crab-in-the-hole.
	A little sea-scorpion - obvious enough from this angle..
	...but well disguised from above!
	A Bloody Henry starfish crawls over rocks encrusted with feeding barnacles.
	A large dahlia anemone - 4 inches across but still a dwarf compared with those in Monterey Bay!
	Dahlia Anemone from above.
	Two crabs - is one a take away snack for the other, or is this a courtship ritual? I really don't know my crustacean behaviour...
	Starfish.
	A rather well disguised and as yet unidentified crab. Anyone any ideas?
	An even better disguised crab. Can you make it out?
	A rather large lobster, which appears to be rather unhappy at me invading it's hole.