snorkel123
11-07-07, 08:29
Dived craggen with rusty nuts last night, were initially going to the caves but no parking space left so continued on to lay bye at craggen, one car was parked across from the '173' marker on barrier so thought possibly other divers in water, turns out belonged to two fishermen who had set up small shelter and chairs etc down by the water, really wanted to dive this site so we went down to them for a chat and to ask if they had any objections to us diving there, (always believe it's nice to be nice!) but if it would disturb the fishing we would happily move on, turns out they were very nice and said no problem - my god could they talk - made kitting up take twice the time with all sorts of questions being rapid fired to us. Two nice chaps though.
Once ready and buddy checked we entered the water and dived straight out to 31.6m, turned left and finned down the loch (know directions thanks to the super dive site guides and drawings on CA! thanks stewart) loads of squat lobsters, never seen as many anywhere before, and really cute little ones the size of your pinky.
Five minutes gentle finning and we reached the small reef, to be honest not much there - lots of urchins,dead mens fingers,velvit and edible crabs, all the usual suspects, swam round the reef and were now at 20m, starting to swim back up the loch and were keeping our eyes open for the admiralty anchor that we again read about on a certain web site. Russell and myself must be better at this navigation stuff than we think, we were right on anchor within two minutes, think we also carry a bit of luck! Swam round anchor a few times and russell got some photos (still to see them, hopefully some good ones) couldn't help wondering about history of anchor and where it had been in it's working life, love stuff like that, thought it was really quite impressive, spent about five minutes there then made our way back to our entry point for our safety stop, during which time we grabbed some spinners and weights to give to our accomodating fishing friends at the surface.
All in was a very pleasant change of site for us and not a midge in sight!
Brian
Once ready and buddy checked we entered the water and dived straight out to 31.6m, turned left and finned down the loch (know directions thanks to the super dive site guides and drawings on CA! thanks stewart) loads of squat lobsters, never seen as many anywhere before, and really cute little ones the size of your pinky.
Five minutes gentle finning and we reached the small reef, to be honest not much there - lots of urchins,dead mens fingers,velvit and edible crabs, all the usual suspects, swam round the reef and were now at 20m, starting to swim back up the loch and were keeping our eyes open for the admiralty anchor that we again read about on a certain web site. Russell and myself must be better at this navigation stuff than we think, we were right on anchor within two minutes, think we also carry a bit of luck! Swam round anchor a few times and russell got some photos (still to see them, hopefully some good ones) couldn't help wondering about history of anchor and where it had been in it's working life, love stuff like that, thought it was really quite impressive, spent about five minutes there then made our way back to our entry point for our safety stop, during which time we grabbed some spinners and weights to give to our accomodating fishing friends at the surface.
All in was a very pleasant change of site for us and not a midge in sight!
Brian