Cuckoo Wrasse

I dive regularly in Plymouth Sound, and Cuckoo Wrasse are abundant! I\'m always surprised by their curiosity and lack of fear - they will approach and hover very close to divers, rushing towards the anything edible if you waft up the sand or silt. Recently whilst diving, I lifted up a rock to discover a bright red Squat Lobster, unbeknown to me a Cuckoo Wrasse was hovering nearby, a flash of colour passed by and that was the end of the poor Squatty! Cuckoo Wrasse have stunning colours, and when I first learnt to dive, I was amazed at how colourful our native fish can be, big spotty Ballan Wrasse, Plaice, Thornback Rays & shoals of silvery Pouting & Pollock. An early entry in my logbook, of an early open water dive reads, \"Lost snorkel, saw big blue starfish\". I still lose bits of equipment, and am still excited by whatever sea life I see in
the Sound!