Digigreen Dive in at Babbacombe
Very strange to be down at Babbacombe again only a week after the clubs ‘dive in’. Meeting up with the DG guys on Saturday it turned out there were a few familiar YD faces as well.
Visibility had been dire the weekend before and was only slightly better this time. Despite not getting any decent pics again I had the opportunity to see and watch a number of cuttlefish this week. Most memorably a pair where the female was lovingly tending to her eggs which were attached to a plant that I happened to be hovering above. It took me a minute of two to realise what she was doing, as she bravely seemed to swim straight towards and underneath me. Then with her longer tentacles appeared to be patting and stroking her eggs that had been laid and attached to a spiky plant that looked like this.
crappy pics but the eggs are the black things
……I felt quite privileged to have seen this behaviour right under my nose. However, due to the continued deteriorating weather conditions (and crap viz) most of us decided to leave early on the Sunday.
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