Despite the long days drawing in Jester and arrived at Loch Fyne in a strange misty half light. The Kingmaker had bailed out at 4.30pm citing a shortage of testicles as a legitimate reason for not diving on a day that he organised.
The midgies were out so a quick kit up was imperative. We did just that, buddy checking on the beach.
As we approached the waters edge neither of us were wearing our glasses I asked Jester if it was a seal in the water - the grey blur in the halflight turned out to be just that. As we dived it circled us from above before deciding that we weren't that interesting (or food) and left.
Our plan had been to look for a firework anemone we had found before near the boat, but for the life of us we couldn't find it. Instead we found some nudibranchs and a lobster Nice compensation.
However, the search at 25m for the anemone had meant we'd approached our decompression limit much quicker than anticipated so our time the reef was ultimately much shallower than we had anticipated. A turn in events that yielded many more sea slugs and blennies.
We looked at our computers and realised we had been down for way over an hour and made our way to the surface through the feeding jellyfish gorging themselves on the plankton bloom.
We surfaced after 72 minutes in what I think was one of my longest dives.
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| Seal head |
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| Entering the water |
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| Cushion Star |
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| Lobster |
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| Flabellina lineata |
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| Yarrell's Blenny |
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| More Flabs |
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| Sea Lemon |
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| Limacia Clavigera |
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