This is the third post relating to a dive I did in North Marina a few weeks ago and this time I’m going to show you one of the harbour’s most common marine species, although it’s also the one with the funniest name…
Here’s a photo of a couple of them:
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Sea Squirt in North Harbour |
Following on from a previous post here’s your chance to go underwater and see what’s it’s like in North Harbour.
The photo below shows one of around 30 starfish that I swam over during my dive:
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One of Many Starfish in North Harbour |
Eastbourne’s leading PADI scuba diving club, Planet Divers, were celebrating yesterday at the Annual Achievers Awards, run by the Eastbourne Herald newspaper.
The club’s efforts over the past four years were rewarded by winning the newly created ‘Environment’ award for helping to clear up one of their dive sites, in and around North Harbour of Sovereign Marina.
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Claire Pooley, Planet Divers’ Project Aware Team Leader with the award photo: Kiernan Pooley |
Read on for more photos of the event, and also last year’s clean-up…
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I went on my first dive of 2007 in the Marina yesterday, and I’d like to share some of my photos with you.
Thought I’d start with something you can see without having to get wet :-)
This time of the year, all areas of Sovereign Harbour are awash with jellyfish like the ones in the picture below:
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Some of the Jellyfish in North Harbour |
Read on to hear what it’s like to dive with them…
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If you thought that Eastbourne’s Sovereign Harbour was just a cold, dark, wet place with not much at all going on below the surface then think again.
Did you know that it contains, amongst other things, some seahorses…
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Wow!
This has been way too long coming, but at least I’ve achieved one of my New Year’s resolutions (to get a Blog up and running) - but I won’t say which year ;-)
I’ve always loved Eastbourne, Natural History, and have been scuba diving for over six years so it made sense trying to bring all that together in my Blog.
For the last seven years, I’ve lived in Eastbourne’s Sovereign Harbour development in the South Harbour, near to the locks and looking out over the English Channel. This area is still too much of a building site for my liking, but the amount of wildlife, especially birds, has grown in both volume and variety.
The same is true of life in the marina itself. I belong to Planet Divers scuba club which has used the North Marina as a regular dive site for a number of years, and whilst the visibility in there is often poor, the marine life, from crabs, eels, fish, and jellyfish, has flourished.
I hope you enjoy the posts and thoughts here, please feel free to comment, and to contact me if you have photos or stories of interest…
Wishing you health, wealth and happiness in everything you do,
Jon
