It's spring tides again so must be time to clean the underwater camera again. The tide was exceptionally low with the camera mounting cross-bar only just below the surface so camera cleaning was easy. The excellent underwater visibility also helped. The algae is growing fast with the whole pontoon, including the camera, covered in a new growth of brown filamentous algae. At this time of year this really needs to be cleaned every week, but the low water temperature and poor weather has prevented this on neap tides. The water temperature should now start to increase as spring advances and within a few weeks it should be possible to resume the weekly cleaning.

The water temperature today was 9.6C.

Although the visibility was very good and the algae very colourful, there was little else about. The usual group of two-spot gobies in the camera wreck were in evidence with about a dozen seen, but away from the wreck there was very little with only one shore crab seen and no other fish.

Walking back along Chesil Beach revealed the first few spring flowers with a few Portland pinks in flower and many scurvy grass flowers.