You know summer is on the way certain creatures return to summer by the coast. Specifically, pink spotted sea cucumbers. Tonight's dive with Jester and the Barrman
was confirmation of that.
Arriving at twilight, we kitted up and headed, as is sometimes the case the loch had receded into the distance which meant that the bottom of the reef was within reach of those limited to just 30m.
The dive was a pretty calm affair, much more so than abuse ridden journey to the site.
There wasn't anything unusual until we reached the bottom of the reef and started to spot the sea cucumbers. They were still quite small, but they were back. Coming up the reef I spotted a few nudis pointed them out to the Barrman who was wondering what we were looking for. Then, he spotted his first nudibranch.
A sense of pride overwhelmed me, my mask began to fill up with tears of nudi joy. It was a beautiful moment as yet another diver entered the water a nudi virgin and emerged all the man he will ever be. OK, so I'm exaggerating but in a relatively pleasant, but normal dive it was a highlight.
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