Despite the cold snap we all experienced during last month the water temperature hasn’t suffered and I was delighted to see all the familiar faces on my first dive of 2011 on our house reef.
'Sepiola atlantica' or Little Cuttle
A little cuttle emerges from his hiding place buried in the sand
'Spinachia spinachia' or Fifteen-spined stickleback
Face to face with a Fifteen-spined stickleback hidden among the eel-grass
'Pagurus bernhardus' or Common hermit crabs
A larger male hermit crab holds a female in preparation for mating