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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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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Between the floods, earthquakes, volcano eruptions and hurricanes already taken place this year, I’m starting to think the planet may have had enough of us. 😩
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I probably look at the social media ban from a slightly different lens than others however after we found out my (then) teenage brother was being groomed via social media and having had friends who were pushed towards suicidal intentions from it, I’m happy to see today’s proposal.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Definitely feeling this today! Last week I turned off my heating, today I’ve turned it on again! 😂
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Missed the aurora on Monday night due to 🌧️ but managed to catch a faint red and green glow to the eye last night so grabbed the @omsystem.bsky.social camera out. While it’s been a busy couple of years, seeing it in the South west of the UK is still pretty rare. Still amazed every time it shows.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
@octopus.energy I’ve seen lots of noise over the IOG fair usage policy being integrated as a key term on how charges are done. Are you speaking to charger manufacturers to stop them throttling charges? I’ve seen my Zappi charging our car at 6kw multiple times and nothing I have done to cause this.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Trying to plan a dive trip for my 40th with Indonesia leading the pack. However the logistical juggling required to get from one part to another so we can do 1 week in each area is blowing my brain so much I’m now too overwhelmed to book anything and will probably end up staying home! 😂 🦑
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Well summer definitely ended this year didn’t it…. This week we’ve had the whole lot of autumn treats and it’s only Tuesday - sun, cloud, rain, hail and thunder & lightning.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
📢 This #WorldOceanDay we're DEMANDING action from govt: BAN bottom trawling in protected areas! 🌊🪸 TAKE A STAND WITH US HERE: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-... 🚨 The world's watching. The time is now⏰ Our director @hugotagholm.bsky.social at the UN Ocean Conference making sure we're heard 🔽
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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 laughingA 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.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 08/06/2025
The ocean… 🌊💙 sustains life, regulates climate, hosts biodiversity, buffers storms, produces oxygen, holds untold wonder. Yet, we’ve polluted its depths and pushed it to the brink. On #WorldOceanDay and every day, let’s act to #SaveOurOcean.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Up at 6am on a Sunday, can only mean one thing…#goingdiving 😁
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Anyone else feel like, that between the UK and US, we somehow stepped into an episode of black mirror? #blackmirror #isthisreallife #wtf #ukpolitics #uspolitics
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It’s only when we finally get a sunny day that I realise how much the shorter days and damp British weather affects my moods. So nice seeing the sunshine again!
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
#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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#bluesky Community. I need a little dopamine boost after some crappy news about impending restructures and redundancies at the end of Q1 and the outlook of the UK jobs market being a bit crap. Show me your photos of #pets #favouritethings #marinelife #nature, anything that makes you happy.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Labor and the Libs can lobby UNESCO all they want to not list the GBR as ‘in danger’ but it doesn’t change the fact that their Future Gas Strategy/Gas Led Recovery & expansion of fossil fuel industry will ensure the death of the reef in our children’s lifetimes 😪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Do I have any Non Execs who work for marine conservation charities who see my posts (such as @mcsuk.bsky.social)? I’m interested in potentially looking at volunteering my time to help a marine/reef conservation based charity as a non exec. What do I need to demonstrate/have on my cv to get noticed?
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Next trip officially booked…back to Malta in May and finally getting to dive with my brothers. Also considering whether a revisit to Egypt is needed..Would it be wrong to book a second trip for autumn this year before even having gone on the first? 🤣
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
5 days of diving and learning new skills with my camera set up. What a trip!!! So for today’s little treat, a rather grumpy false clown fish! 🤣 #scubadiving #marinelife 🦑 #underwaterphotography
A false clown fish looking rather unhappy with a bubble anemone in the background
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Singapore Changi Airport really has to be experienced with a long layover to truly admire its beauty. We had 5 hours and it wasn’t enough! #travel #singapore #transit
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Weighed my underwater camera set up before packing it. Nearly 5kg on land!! And that’s with a baby camera! Had to add the additional two floats arms on so now it’s very slightly negatively buoyant in fresh water, not long until I see how it performs in the sea 😁 #scubadiver #underwaterphotography
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Don’t think there will be any confusion over my kit this trip 🤣🤣🤣 #allthepink #scubadiving #apeksrk3 #halcyoninfinity #beuchatmaxluxs
A photo of scuba equipment - pink fins with a whale shark design on them, a bright pink mask and pink harness on the BCD
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Now we’re talking!!! She’s beautiful 😍 however it makes the TG5 look tiny 😂 Two spare arms and two spare floats to play with still too! #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #allthegearonlysomeoftheidea
An underwater camera set up. A TG5 camera in waterproof housing attached to a tray with two arms and two floats. One float has a large underwater torch attached, the other has an underwater flash. The arms are connected by a pink rope on two boltsnaps which is hanging on the handle of a white door
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A little video for #25daysofcrustmas 🦞 today from our summer Porthkerris trip. #scubadiving #marinelife 🦑 #ukdiving
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I’ve almost run out of diving photos to share, well until the next trip in a couple of weeks anyway! 😁 So here is a nudi (possibly Flabellina affinis?) pulled from my archives, taken in Tenerife. #marinelife 🦑 #scubadiving
A nudibranch, possibly a Flabellina affinis, blue/purple in colour sitting on top of a branchlike coral.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yikes! Time to batten down the hatches for the next 24 hours!
A screenshot of a government issued red weather warning for strong winds covering the Devon area starting from 3am on Saturday the 7th December. The alert warns of danger to life, infrastructure, power alerts and mobile phone coverage.
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Donna 🤿🫧 @littledj.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Probably one of my fave European countries I’ve visited. Berlin is so full interesting history, I could probably add 20 photos and not do it justice. The holocaust memorial was beautifully depicted and eerily depicted. It definitely gave the sense as a place to reflect #travel #europe
A piece of the Berlin Wall which has been graffiti’d to depicting 9 people standing, sitting or kneeling all wearing cloaks and gas masks. The wall has a blue and black background with the characters being in greyscale. The original graffiti has been covered in further name tag graffiti. Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, the official US checkpoint station. The photo shows the booth which has sandbags in front of it with two uniformed people holding large American flagsThe memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe. This photo shows a long brick paved corridor lined either side with grey very tall concrete blocks. There is a man and child in the distance A section of the Berlin Wall graffiti’s with a man wearing blue jeans and a red coat with shirt and tie jumping over the wall. In the background is a building with a crowd of people depicted to the side of it
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It's a spiny lobster, Panulirus versicolor! They are extremely distantly related to the Maine lobsters. Indeed these are called Achelata = no claws
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