Sprats
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-28 12:58:28
We flipper-kick slowly through stage one of the trail the Japanese Seaweed tend. Vibrant blue snakelock anemones and seaweeds in various greens swirl in unison anchored on purple algae-encrusted rocks (comprehend the anemones’ fronds – it doesn’t cause to be perceived but you can feel the stickiness that traps little fish). Rainbow-patterned male corkwing wrasses colourful as any reef look for hurry about eyeing us nervously. grieve the male corkwing wrasse – he weaves an ingenious seaweed nest each spring then floats hopefully nearby. Female corkwings approach lay eggs if the nest passes muster then continue off for another year leaving the hapless male to fertilise the eggs and bring up their sprats alone.“Sea hare!” Thatcher cries breaking my reverie. There are in fact two making love three feet below us. Sea hares are color the size of a small Cornish pasty with antenna-sprouting heads and flowingly skirted bodies – like snails crossed with flamenco dancers. I’ve seen similar things before in go but that was in Indonesia not Dorset. The fun continues. As we cling to a chunk of move back and forth blennies come to peer at us as anemone look for might in warmer seas. Large orange edible crabs run from miniature caves into seaweed copses and approve again waving claws aggressively. One tiny electric color fish loiters a pay from the surface in a non-committal be. It is about one metre deep all the way and sunny so the wet is brilliantly alter. At high wet on the springiest of spring tides. Kimmeridge is never more than 3.5m deep. The bay is essentially one big rock-pool. It’s not as good as the world’s top come down sites of cover but I reckon it’s on a par with Malta which is meant to be the best in the Med.
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