where did i dive?

[stew]

Ok loch long lovers; get your thinking caps on.
I dived today somewhere I have never dived before, fed up doing the same old dive sites, so a little exploration dive today.
Perhaps half way from the caves & GDRE on the A817.
If your heading from Arrochar towards GDRE, on your right hand side there is a large lay by built into the rock.
Prior to that on your left, there is access for 2 vehicles to park.
Access to the dive site is a hop over the fence which has 3 green crosses painted on it, 3 yellow dashes & the numbers 173.
In the water there appears to be nothing to see except scree slope, not so if you don’t give up.
Swimming to your left, towards GDRE at 32 meters there is the start of a reef, goes on up to around 21 meters.
On the way back at 19m I found a large 2-meter or so admiralty anchor, would look good in the back garden, anyone got a trailer?
I first thought this may be midway reef, named by Ding a few months back, it appears not to be?
Any ideas?
if not, i suggest we call it Anchor reef.

http://www.freewebs.com/scubaportal/metalsub/reef3ll.JPG
the entry
http://www.freewebs.com/scubaportal/metalsub/reef2ll.JPG
the parking, entry to the right.
http://www.freewebs.com/scubaportal/metalsub/reef1ll.JPG
another entry shot.

[alexmaclennan]

Hi Stewart,

Is this parking spot one or two hundred meters to the Arrochar side of the only roadside parking - The stone walled tarmac laybye that holds 3 or 4 cars.

My 1:1000 chart (don't worry about still having it we'll catch up) shows it as 'Green Cross' laybye or some such name

Once over the barrier its a fairly flat track to some big stone slabs on the left.

Never dived there but I think that that might be called either Craggen or Fisherman's point - read descriptions that give these names on two websites.

I'll send you my work in progress divesite description as I was planning to explore there this summer - check it is the same site.

alex

[alexmaclennan]

Stewart,

Midway is south of GDRE. It's easily found as it is the only laybye that you can turn a truck in. Massive laybye with a 'weeping wall' behind it.

alex

[stew]

hi Alex,
was speaking to 'bikerbill' he knows the site as 'Craggen', as you have suggested the same, i assume it must be.
i can do an U/W map of this site & email them to you, still got the fresh memories in my head :)

[Ding]

hi Alex,
was speaking to 'bikerbill' he knows the site as 'Craggen', as you have suggested the same, i assume it must be.
i can do an U/W map of this site & email them to you, still got the fresh memories in my head :)


i have lot of mems but i wil forget in the morning

Cheers

ding:D :D :D