The planned Bank holiday weekend trip to Largs in Scotland was rearranged due to lack of numbers to become a very well attended one day trip to Porth Ysgaden on the Llyn Penninsular in North Wales. Diving just on the Saturday which lived up to far better weather than had been predicted by the weathermen!
Under cloudy skies but on a slight sea surface we motored out on both Ribs to Maen Melt, about a 40 minute trip from Porth Ysgaden, to dive the rocks and gulley’s there. Arrived just on slack water which is an essential to dive this location and were rewarded with 2 to 3 meter visibility and bright waters down to the 21 meter deep sea bed. Lots of spider crabs, sponges, dead men’s fingers and an unusually large number of Nudi Branches! Andy and Dave H even found an ivory chip, a remnant of the wreck of the Lucy!
Returning from Maen Melt the skies cleared somewhat to give some good sunshine. Ernie and Paul dropped into the bay at Porth Ysgaden and during lunch Dave G & John dropped on to the reef for a drift dive which was 'nothing to write home about' by all accounts.
A second full team dive on the reef towards the back end of the afternoon however gave much better results. Three pairs of divers dropped fairly shallow (15 meters) and closer in to the shore and covered by one of the RIBs didn’t move a great deal. Ernie and Alice covered by the other RIB dropped in to deeper water in a couple of knots of drifting water back towards Maen melt and had an excellent dive, again in only a couple of meters visibility, covering over half a mile in 30 minutes or so but encountering dog fish, Red Gurnard, Crabs of many varieties, etc. It has to be said that there was excited chat all round on both boats as to how good the dive had been on the return to shore.
A beautiful sunset wrapped up another great day’s diving!
Many thanks to Dave G for organising :-)
DH
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