A concrete walkway leads right up to the water's edge with a drop-off into about 4m of water and a very easy exit at the end of the dive. The walkway leads you into a channel between the shore and the reef, allowing you to head up the channel and around the end of the reef in either direction.

Heading north, you will pass over a series of gullies and sandy areas, commonly inhabited by crabs and lobsters in the rocky parts and dabs and flounders on the sandy patches. Huge shoals of sand eels are often found. It is possible to swim around the north end of the reef and head back up the seaward side of the reef, where conger eels and large cod are often found.

At the southern end of the reef is a series of rock walls that form the north side of Rum Fauds bay and provide homes to huge numbers of squat lobsters, blennies and shannies, with occasional lobsters and large crabs

This shore dive is easiest accessed at high tide and provides a series of interesting gullies to explore. At the end of the gulley you can head south and navigate back into the Ness End Reef channel, or head north along the shore towards the harbour entrance. This is a favourite spot for lobster creels and is inhabited by many of these wonderful creatures. Walls encrusted with soft coral and sponges make this an attractive dive.

Park on the cliff top next to theNorthburn Holiday Centre; access to the sea is down a series of wooden steps. The loch is a wide gully with a coarse sandy bottom, home to hermit crabs, flat fish and starfish. The steep walls with deep fissures and ledges also house Norwegian squat lobsters and in the early season (March to May), male lumpsuckers diligently guard the eggs laid by the larger female.

This is a submerged rocky reef system, which can be reached either from the entrance of Weasel Loch or by entering the water in Leeds bay. This site is a good area to see wolf-fish, conger eels, lobsters and large shoals of white fish as well as brittle stars and dahlia anemones. Tides can be strong along the reef so the site is best dived at slack tide; good navigation skills will reduce the risk of a long surface swim back to your exit point.