The plan was to dive the James Eagan Layne, but after a very bumpy ride out and finding heavy sea beyond Penlee Point, we returned to sheltered area inside Penlee Point and dived 50m or so from the rocky shore. I dived once again with Peter C. The deeper outcrops at 10-15 metres were nice and reefy, very pretty. Shallower, about 5-6m towards the end of the dive, there was a lot of kelp (to be expected) and it was not quite so nice.
Around the bouldery reefs there was a very pleasant variety of colourful seaweeds, and plant-like animinals, feathery sea-firs, sea-squirts etc. (unknown sponges). There were sea-cucumbers (cotton-spiners), snakelock anenomes, spiny starfish, purple starfish. Fish - there were lots of fry, especially goldsinny wrasse, as well as adult ballan wrasse, a wonderful group of cuckoo wrasse, a pollack (on every dive there seems to be a single large pollack), and a tompot blenny. It was a really good relaxed dive. Peter lugged the blob around, and found a fishing weight.
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