Hi All,

Well I hit Sandycove today in the company of Scubacrazy ( Catriona to those in the know ). The viz was quite good at 5 - 6 mtrs and as we had nothing better in mind we just took off on a Northerly bearing to see what we could see.

As it turned out we didn't see much but it was nice all the same - an afternoon stroll sort of a dive. Anyhoos, every now and then we would see a darting in the sand as we approached. I had worked out from last weeks dive that these were the ever-elusive squat-lobsters. For some reason they are coming out of their dens and going for strolls themselves; but they shoot away when they see you comming.

Now for the last couple of years I have been trying to get a photo of these critters. Some of them are sand coloured and so very hard to see but another type ( different sex - James? - help ? ) is the most vibrant orange with deep blue eyes. How do I know this ? from standing on my head looking into crevices with my torch as the little bastards scurry away into the recesses in back of their hidy holes. Why on my head ? because these fellers like to hang upside down from the roof of their little caves.

As I say I have been tracking them assiduously for years now and never got a good photo op .


UNTIL TODAY !


Yes, one of them must have strayed too far from his (her?) hole and I cornered it against a rock - or the glare of my Darkbuster fried it's little leg-scuttling-neurons before it got a chance to get really goin' .

So here it is - the rarest photo in the world ! ( well the little corner of it that constitutes my house anyway ! )


Ooops ! First pic is my equally colourful companion !

Nice Shot Chris

It was nice to see you there Sunday and Even better to get some descent viz this side of the country

Tom

Tommsy wrote:

Nice Shot Chris It was nice to see you there Sunday and Even better to get some descent viz this side of the country Tom

Ahh the owl macro button is yer only man !

Good to see you too Tom

They are really nice photos. Very impressed.

pokeystar wrote:

They are really nice photos. Very impressed.

If you take enough of them you're bound to get a few decent ones .

Then again I could just be brilliant !

Excellent Chris. Number 2 is Superb. Well done! That one alone had to be worth the cold, the tank of gas and the long trip to Sandycove!