The journey to Anglesey on Thursday evening was smooth. The forecast was for South Easterly winds force 3 gusting 4. In true bank holiday fashion, it started raining in the early hours of Friday and continued for 36 hours.

There were some incidents with the trailer wheel and a very dead Cheshire Cat battery. A big thank you to Dave, Clemmie and Steve W, who sourced and fitted a new battery.

We met each morning at 8.30am to load the boats, kit up and launch. We came back in at lunch time to change cylinders etc.

Dive sites:

Good Friday (Sports Diver):

AM. The Beacons

PM. The Fangs.  

Easter Saturday (Ocean Diver):  

AM. The Beacons

PM. The Coastguard Station.

Easter Sunday (Ocean Diver):  

AM. The Hermine

PM. The Havso and Maen Piscar.

Once in the water the diving was good. We had 4/5m vis, a cool 10c water temperature and an abundance of marine life including Boring, Crater, Elephant Hide, Black Tar, Myxilla and Hedgehog sponges. Sea Orange: Oaten Pipe, Antenna, Branched Antenna, Indian Feather, Herringbone and Helter Skelter hydroids. Deadmens Fingers. Dahlia, White Striped and Snakelocks anemones. Parchment and Double Spiral worms. Crawfish, Common Lobster, Spiny Spider, Edible, Hermit and Velvet Swimming Crab, Sea Lemon and several Violet Sea Slugs, Scallops, Octopus, Hornwrack, Potato Crisp Bryzoan, Sunstars, Bloody Henry and Common Starfish, Crevice and Gravel Sea Cucumber, Club and Star Sea Squirt, Ballan, Gold Sinny and Cuckoo Wrasse, Tompot Blenny, Painted Goby, Pollock and Cat Shark.