Went to have a look in spite of weather forecast and we (Geoff and me) had excellent 6m vis, and some sunshine! Very nice easy and very shallow dive - just 5m. Few other divers there getting ready, but the place very nice and quiet.
Off the beach we went north and east and pottered along at the edge of the rocks. Mixed weed and remnants of kelp. Nice reefy slabs. Found a larger rock with a small tunnel that had sponges, dead-men's fingers, small anemones, sea squirts and horse-shoe worms. I'd brought my camera - just in case - and got a few pictures of a black-faced blenny. He was quite bold - much like the tompots sometimes are.
So close to Shoalstone expected to see a few sea hares - but there were none. Lots of tiny netted-whelks. Spiny, and velvet swimmer crabs. A solitary brittlestar.
Still fine, we sat out and had a bacon sandwich and a cuppa. Coming home I made the mistake of taking us around Paignton on the main road and got stuck in the Torquay/Newton traffic.
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