South West Ramblings

Mark Webster · Issue 85, Jul/Aug 2015 · pp. 47–53

Products mentioned: Nikon D300, Nikon D7100, Subal ND2 housing, Subal ND7100 housing, 10-17mm FE zoom, 105mm micro, Inon Z240 flash guns

This installment from the far south west is more about grumblings and protest rather than gentle ramblings…..read on. I am very fortunate to live in the county of Cornwall which possesses some of the best diving in the United Kingdom and much of this is just a short hop from my front door. One of the best known locations, for divers and underwater photographers, are the collection of reefs known as the Manacles just offshore from the Lizard peninsula. Many divers will be familiar with these treacherous reefs as the graveyard for numerous wrecks, but below the water they also offer the most spectacular array of colourful marine life, which of course is the draw for those of us with a camera. In fact the marine life here is so good that parts of the Manacles have been declared a Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) in order to protect a number of rare and threatened species. However, in the last…