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Donna 🤿🫧
@littledj.bsky.social
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Devon, UK based Scuba diver and travel addict with a keen interest in marine conservation and photography (however skills on the latter are amateurish).

Finance person, wife and dog mum.
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“What you doing?”

Curious duck investigating me and my camera in Newquay last week.

#duck #curious #birdsofbluesky #birds #wildlife #sundaypix #outdoors
A white duck with orange legs and a yellow beak, standing on grass looking towards the camera with its head cocked to one side.
July 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Bee loaded up with pollen covered legs on a thistle.

#insects #thistle #bees #wildlife #outdoors #omsystems
A Bee loaded up with pollen covered legs on top of a purple thistle.
July 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Found this little bee taking a nap on the flowers this morning.

#nature #bee #plant #photography #insects #wildlife #sundaypix
A bee, resting on the stem of a pink Salvia Nemerosa plant
July 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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It’s World Ocean Day!

Here’s a reminder that 70% of our world is ocean, most of it not yet explored. In the areas that are often visited there is plenty of evidence that, even without seeing it all, it’s worth protecting.

#worldoceanday #marinelife 🦑 #underwater #scuba
A moray eel with its body hidden inside a rocky cave covered in red and orange coral. The moray’s body is spotted with yellow and it has a yellow eye. Its mouth is open, looking like it’s laughing A whale shark, body curved upwards towards the lights above with mouth open. It is surrounded by small fish. An octopus, hiding in a small coral rocky area amongst a sandy. It has camouflaged itself in purples, pinks and white to match its hiding place. There is a diver swimming in the background making it look like the octopus is hiding from the diver. A curious cuttlefish facing the camera with its tentacles loosely hung in front of it.
June 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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As it’s national ocean month I’d be remiss to not share some more photos.

For the sake of conservation and the possibility it’s still there I won’t share location on this one but to say there was happy dancing on finding this is an understatement #marinelife 🦑 #scuba #underwaterphotography #travel
A yellow seahorse hiding amongst some sea grass and seaweed
June 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Home from an awesome trip to Malta and more learning curves with the camera set up.

Sharing one of my fave photos from the trip.

While #marinelife is still a little sparse in Malta, it’s good to see some changes being put into limit over tourism.

#diving #scubadiving #malta #travel
Two divers in a cavern, the exit lights up blue in front of them showing both divers in silhouette profile, the diver on the left has a torch with the beam pointing downwards.
May 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Late post this week thanks to being on day 4 of suspected food poisoning from a Dominos Pizza…

A little moray eel peeking out from below some interesting corals.

The eyes remind me of the googly eye often used on objects for comedic effect 😂

#marinelife 🦑 #underwaterphotography #scubadiving
A small moray eel partially hidden beneath some blue green coral structure. The eel is looking towards the camera with its mouth open as though it’s smiling. This type of eel has white eyes with a black pupil.
March 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The 1 year view unfortunately still shows its up overall. Hopefully it continues to fall and doesn’t stop!

It’s a shame that he’s managed to place such a weak board that won’t oust him!
Tesla stock price showing it is still almost 38% up on a year ago…
March 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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A honeycomb moray eel (?) hiding in the rocks surrounding at Boonsung Wreck in Khao Lak.

#marinelife #scubadiver #underwaterphotography 🦑
A cream with black spotted moray eel peeking out from the rocks. It’s mouth is open showing its small sharp teeth on its bottom jaw
March 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A weird looking little fella for this week. I almost missed him as his shell was so well disguised in with the surrounding area. It was the yellow and blue flashes that caught my eye.

#scubadiver #underwaterphotography #marinelife 🦑 #andamansea
A small hermit crab sitting on top of a rocky coral encrusted surface. His shell is covered in a moss like substance with some small barnacles attached. The crab itself is peaking from the shell showing a red front leg, yellow stems below its pupil and blue antenna.
March 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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About 4 years ago I had an idea to mount my awesome dive map onto a magnet board surrounded by magnets from our dive holidays. Today I made it a reality and realised I need more holidays 🤣

7 destinations in 7.5 years! Hopefully more to come!

#scubadiver #travel #scubadiving #holidays
A big blue rectangular magnet board with a large map of the earth on it showing a visual representation the best dive locations and what to see in them. Along the top there are 7 magnets for different locations around the world
March 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Back to the sea slugs this week with a lovely Phyllidia varicosa

This seemed to be the most common of the Nudi’s that were present in the Similan and Surin area of Thailand.

#nudibranch #seaslug #marinelife 🦑 #scubadive #underwaterphotography
Phyllidia varicosa - A white bodied sea slug with black stripes and yellow pimples curved around a cream coloured rocky area of the sea bed.
February 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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I’d never seen a cowrie shell that wasn’t a decorative item so I may have got a little excited when I spotted this tucked in the rocks on a slope, especially when I realised they’re actually naturally shiny! 🤣

I don’t know if anything was living inside as I didn’t dare disturb it 🦑

#marinelife
A cowrie shell sitting on a rocky sea bed
February 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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#sundaypix all plans out of the window..puppy cuddles time instead.
Picture of a dog, asleep half in her grey, fluffy doughnut bed half on a red and grey patch style blanket
February 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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This weeks picture is probably only one creature higher than the goby on annoying things to try to capture! Its uncanny ability to disappear is as incredible to see as frustrating to photograph!

I present the Christmas tree worm.

#marinelife 🦑 #scubadiver #scubadiving #underwaterphotography
A white Christmas tree worm displaying itself on top of a yellow hard coral in which it has made its home.
February 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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*update* Waterstones are the masters at making sure I impulse buy, went in to buy a gift voucher, walked out with a hugely overpriced jellycat octopus. But he’s so cute!
A jellycat octopus stuffed on top of a cupboard
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Forgot to share yesterday, so here’s this weeks picture a day late. Another for the #nudibranch collection. This was only about 1cm long!!!

Unfortunately I’ve been unsuccessful in identifying the species of this one.

#andamansea #marinelife 🦑 #underwaterphotography #scuba
A small nudibranch sitting on the edge of a rocky area, the nudi is orange with 3 visible rhinophores which are orange, yellow and white in colour. The cerata is yellow with rings of blue/purple by the base.
February 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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In light of the news about the mass bleaching events that have been seen during this extremely harsh El Niño period I thought I’d share a more happier reef health picture taken around Richelieu rock.

#thailand #richelieurock #marinelife #corals #scubadiving 🦑 #saveouroceans
A healthy coral environment showing a rocky surface covered in colourful hard and soft corals of orange, yellow, pink and purple colours. In the background schools of fish can be seen
January 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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And the outcome of the autumn budget are now starting to be realised. It was always going to end with roles being cut to close the gap on 2024 vs 2025 payroll bill. I just wonder now how deep the cuts will go.
A screenshot of an article about Sainsbury’s removing 3000 heads to reduce costs
January 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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A curious little cuttlefish found around the Boonsung wreck near Khao Lak.

#marinelife 🦑 #diving #cuttlefish #underwaterphotography #scubadiving #scubadiver
A cuttlefish, facing the camera with its tentacles facing towards the ground. Its two elongated tentacles are crossed in front of it touching the ground. The cuttlefish, which can change colour, is displaying itself as brown with white spots, the edges of its tentacles are peach in colour and the around the area where the tentacles join the body are a pale green.
January 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Another #andamansea photo. I wasn’t expecting this trip to be quite about the macro stuff but it really gave me chance to focus on how to photograph the small stuff, this #nudibrach (Risbecia pulchella?) was about 5cm long. Tiny compared to the details seen by the camera.

#marinelife 🦑 #scubadiving
A nudibrach sits in the centre of the photo lengthways across the screen and angled slightly towards the camera. It is while and brown in colour with yellow spots and a purple edge to its upper body. It has two brown rhinophorea and white gills with brown vertical stripes. The nudi sits upon a rocky and sandy surface mainly light brown in colour with some small red moss like areas
January 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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A Spanish dancer egg ribbon. I had absolutely no idea what this was when I saw it, assuming some sort of coral, imagine my surprise when I discovered this was eggs! Hundreds and hundreds of eggs!

📍Andaman Sea

#nudibrach #spanishdancer #marinelife 🦑 #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #scuabdiver
A Spanish dancer egg ribbon, dark pink in colour, sits in a tight circular shape on a two tiered rocky surface, red, green and pink in colour. In the background a small soft coral can be seen.
January 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Back in the UK and sorting through photos. As Jan is usually a pretty sucky month. Here’s a happy porcupine fish to stave away the blues.

Taken at Richelieu Rock in Thailand.

#marinelife 🦑 #underwaterphotography #scubadiving #puffafish #porcupinefish
A porcupine fish facing the camera appearing to smile. The creature is cream in colour with brown seed shaped spots, it has two small fins one which is extended and one tucked into its body. To the left of the porcupine fish is a small rocky hard coral
January 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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As we come towards the end of our trip and enjoy our last couple of nights of relaxation, I’ll indulge you all in a photo of me.

In the words of my dear husband: “a photo of my wife taking photos”.

Here’s to more of this next year

#scubadiving #underwaterphotography #marinelife
A diver with a camera set up, shining torch light onto the reef below illuminating a shoal of orange fish to the left. Bubbles rise above the divers head.
December 30, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Potentially a hawksbill turtle? Taken last week during our trip to Thailand, I couldn’t risk getting any closer through fear of annoying 3 other divers with GoPro’s/cameras 🤣

#turtle #marinelife 🦑 #scubadiving #underwaterphotography
A turtle, dark brown upper shell and yellow under belly in colour, gracefully swimming along a sandy bottomed reef
December 29, 2024 at 8:40 AM