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INFORMATION: This trail is suitable for qualified divers only.

The site is also suitable for snorkellers - but please check local conditions first

  1. Before arriving, check weather, winds, tides and seek local knowledge

  2. Depth - At LWM min depth 2.5m to max 8.0m

  3. Distance: 635m approx in an anticlockwise direction

  4. Suitable for qualified CMAS and PADI divers at all levels. 

  5. Always dive in pairs

  6. Suitable for marine life identification workshops  - please enquire

  7. Respect Leave no trace/no take zone principals

  8. Observe, take photos, do not touch the marine life

  9. Citizen science - Please record your sightings photos by tagging @wildderrynane on social media

LOCATION

VIDEOS

Underwater nature Trail

Underwater nature Trail

Underwater nature Trail
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Alien Invaders
01:32

Alien Invaders

Glow in the Dark Deep
01:36

Glow in the Dark Deep

Beaked Beauties
15:15

Beaked Beauties

Big Gliders / Cool Divers
03:32

Big Gliders / Cool Divers

GALLERY

WHAT WILL YOU SEE?

1.   Brown seaweeds including serrated wrack.

2.   Blennies, sand gobies and shore crabs.

3.   Beadlet anemonies and spider crabs. 

4.   Swimming crabs, dragonets and pogge.

5.   Juvenille lobster and common prawns

6.   Kelp, dahlia anemone, stalked jellyfish and velvet swimming crabs. 

7.   Bib and anemonies in overhangs.

8.   Dahlia Anemonies on shingle.

9.   Deadmans fingers.

10. Juvenille edible crab.

11. Wrasse including ballan and rock cook.

12. Occasional sightings of octopus.

13. Beautiful kelp forest habitat.

14. Shoaling pollack with passing mullet and occasionally bass.

15. Seawhip, shore crab and little cuttlefish.

16. Daisy anemone and at night fluorescing in blue light excitation. 

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Wild         Derrynane

Enrich your library and home with Vincent's wonderful writing, photographs, illustrations and mixed media pieces. For a deeper connection to the natural world, why not take a curated walk with Vincent around the wonderful surrounds of Derrynane. Wild Derrynane since 2010.

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+353 83 1992560
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