The Tripods from Porth Colmon. The first wave (David, Carol and Mike) got some shallow slack. Hugh and Malcolm got a rather deep and fast drift. No time for any photographs.
Careg Ddu from Aberdaron.
A night dive from close to the Lifeboat station in Cricieth. The motley crew can be seen below photographed by Mike Duke who wouldn’t dive because it was too shallow! It was a brilliant dive with a fantastic amount of life which one would not normally see during the day. We never got deeper than 3 metres. It was the baby squid that I had never seen before.
Dived off South West tip of Bardsey. Great underwater landscape and a lot of life. We were joined by a seal for a short time. It came right up to Carol Jones, just to check her out. Scooted around and was off as quickly as it came.
Dived off Trwyn Cilan again. Ian came along instead of Liz.
Dived area around the area of Trwyn Cilan. Liz Lawrence had a go at her Advanced Diver assessment.
Porth Ysgaden in the evening.
Two dives, an octopus and Maen Mellt, we were really rocking. (Mike, John, Hugh, Neil David and Dylan). However looking out through the bedroom window at 8:30 at the pouring rain, if had been just me I would have gone back to bed. Arrived Porth Colmon at 10 am. Still raining. Out to the reef off Porth Colmon. We dived with the last of the tide before low water slack. Tide carried us along nicely, stopping wasn’t a problem. A lot of life and an interesting terrain. Right next to the rose coral that I was showing Dylan, I spotted the octopus. It heaved itself out of the hole and waited for the photograph then shot off.
Two couldn’t do a second dive; Dylan wasn’t very well?! and John had to get back home. Over to Maen Mellt for a threesome. Neil gallantly forfeited his dive. Some tidal movement. Really good seascape; large gullies and boulders. Plenty of life. Unfortunately at the end of the dive, the tide caused a rather strong up current (much dumping of air), followed by a down current but by then we were on the DSMB line.
Perfect conditions for the dive on the Segontium. The Segontium an old mussel dredger which is in 30 m of water, upright and still largely intact despite the effort of some divers. We have dived this wreck several times over the years and have never been disappointed. We weren’t this time. the anemones covering the outer hull, the shoals of small fish around the super structure and the conger eels in just about every orifice. It is definitely a dive where one is very careful where one puts ones hands, a lesson that Conger Neil has still to learn, apparently. David, Don and Carol dived in the first wave with Hugh and Neil in the second. Three other dive boats joined us soon after we had put down the shot line.
