I had a couple of crackin' dives today at Loch Sunart (where I'm "on assignment" for the next two weeks and again a week after that for 6 weeks).I needed to reset the mooring I organised for a Swallows and Amazon's trip last year at Forest Road End so we started there.
It was a very low water this morning so the pip buoy was clearly visible in the water and made it an easy surface swim out to sort it all out.
After that we descended into a balmy 8metres and cruised along the bottom on the starting Flood Tide, all the way up to Scot's Pine Bay where I recognised the outer reef formations and we surfaced in the glorious sun around the headland to SPB.
We dropped the kit by the roadside and Chris walked back to FRE to bring the truck up... (well, it's HIS car... of course he'd have to walk back... [wink].
A short drive from there to Camas Torsa for lunch, only to find "someone" had forgotten the milk for the coffees... (Chris!, tsk, tsk)
Bleugh! Black coffee, and with the extra bleugh factor of a petrol taint to the coffee! His rapid burner/cooker fuel tank had sprung a leak and dripped petrol on the mugs. (Hmm, let me tell you, he now knows NOT to put the cooker in with the food!)
Anyway, the tide was still so low 1 1/2 hours later that the mooring blocks were still visible so it was a long walk into the sea.
Another crackin' dive in the same 8m+ viz all the way to the second reef (24m bottom) and back over the top again and back to the entry point. There was a HUGE Ling in it's lair under one of the deep mooring blocks along with loads of hermits and edible crabs all around.
Didn't even need the torches at 24m as the sun was beaming down.
Lucky me, I'm here for a wee while and if the weather stays like this, it's gonna be a cracker!
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