Southwest Ramblings 23

Mark Webster · Issue 100, Jan/Feb 2018 · pp. 87–91

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

This will be my first ramble of 2017/8 as a number of other life priorities have impinged on my diving this year. Despite fewer dives I have still managed to collect some pleasing images and as the next issue of UWP is number 100 I thought it was a good prompt to review the events of the year. If you have followed any of my previous ramblings you will know that I have a bit of a penchant, possibly and obsession, for UK nudibranchs. I always look forward to the first few months of the year when the breeding season commences and these little critters begin to appear in abundance. Often we are seeing the same species each year, but I am always hopeful of finding something unusual and if you look hard enough then usually at least one instance will occur. Finding a rare species is of course the pinnacle, and I was lucky with one this year, but the other approach can be simply to explore diffe…