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Bored into leaving
The wife and I bravely headed north of not just Watford, but even Watford Gap for a week diving out of Seahouses. We left early enough in the morning to see this:
On the trip up we went past where we would be staying and stopped off in Eyemouth for a dive out of Weasel Loch. Unfortunately, it seems that the guy who suggested it has an interesting idea of what constitutes a "shore dive".
This is myself and two of the guys I went in with sorting out quite how we are going to get in:
And once zoomed out you get some idea of the task, the cars with the gear in were parked at the same level as the picture is taken from:
However, I suited up
And down we headed
In all there were somewhere between 70 and 80 steps, followed by a climb across about 20 metres of rocks. Suffice is to say I stole Nina's single rather than trying that in twin 12s.
Once in there was a good amount of life down there and the viz was ok, around 8m (note the small fish living in/on/around the jellyfish).
Some were posing such as this lobster and dogfish
And then once we were done, the tide had failed to rise by 30 metres, so we were still left with a bit of a climb out:
One of those, "How do I get up there" moments:
And this is not quite the intended use of the cage on the rebreather box, but it works well enough:
And then we still had the steps:
From a diver's eye perspective:
After this we headed into Seahouses for a night's drinking with a day off after to prepare for the week of diving.
After being blown out Monday, we loaded up on Tuesday, my set is the last one on the right tied to the side behind it.
And were greeted by some nice views on the way out
Once in the life was similar to Eyemouth with an abundance of dead man's fingers and sea urchins with a few crabs and such together with jellyfish which seem well practised in stinging divers across the lips (the only exposed part):
On the trip up we went past where we would be staying and stopped off in Eyemouth for a dive out of Weasel Loch. Unfortunately, it seems that the guy who suggested it has an interesting idea of what constitutes a "shore dive".
This is myself and two of the guys I went in with sorting out quite how we are going to get in:
And once zoomed out you get some idea of the task, the cars with the gear in were parked at the same level as the picture is taken from:
However, I suited up
And down we headed
In all there were somewhere between 70 and 80 steps, followed by a climb across about 20 metres of rocks. Suffice is to say I stole Nina's single rather than trying that in twin 12s.
Once in there was a good amount of life down there and the viz was ok, around 8m (note the small fish living in/on/around the jellyfish).
Some were posing such as this lobster and dogfish
And then once we were done, the tide had failed to rise by 30 metres, so we were still left with a bit of a climb out:
One of those, "How do I get up there" moments:
And this is not quite the intended use of the cage on the rebreather box, but it works well enough:
And then we still had the steps:
From a diver's eye perspective:
After this we headed into Seahouses for a night's drinking with a day off after to prepare for the week of diving.
After being blown out Monday, we loaded up on Tuesday, my set is the last one on the right tied to the side behind it.
And were greeted by some nice views on the way out
Once in the life was similar to Eyemouth with an abundance of dead man's fingers and sea urchins with a few crabs and such together with jellyfish which seem well practised in stinging divers across the lips (the only exposed part):
