A big thank you to Phil, Dave and Steve for ensuring that the repairs to  Top Cat‘s trailer were all sorted prior to this trip. We got the boat prepped and set off from Macclesfield to Anglesey for a weekend of diving in superb weather.

We met each morning at Trearddur Bay car park to prep and load the trailer. Phil had planned a slack water and a non-tidal dive for Saturday and Sunday and a non-tidal dive for Monday. The forecast was for cool, dry weather with Force 3 to 4 North Easterly winds.

Dive sites:

Saturday, meet 8.30am.

AM: The Coastguard Station 17-18m.

PM: Pinnacle A 24m.

Sunday, meet 7.30am.

AM: Caernarfon Bay Light Vessel 34m.

PM. The Beacons North.

Monday, meet 8.30am.

AM The Beacons South 17m.

The water temperature was 11C and the vis 4m except in Caernarfon Bay where the plankton bloom reduced it to 1-2m (the strobe on the shot line was invaluable). The wind chill was significant throughout the weekend.

The diving was good and the marine life included: Boring, Crater, Elephant Hide, Black Tar, Myxilla and Hedgehog sponges: Sea Orange: Antenna, Indian Feather, Herringbone and Helter Skelter hydroids: Deadmens Fingers, Hornwrack,: Dahlia, White Striped, Plumose and Snakelocks anemones: Double Spiral worms: Crawfish, Squat and Common Lobster, Spiny Spider, Edible, Hermit and Velvet Swimming Crab, Sea Lemon and several species of nudibranch, Sunstar, Bloody Henry and Common Starfish, Crevice Sea Cucumber, Club, Lightbulb  and Star Sea Squirt, Prawns, Octopus, Ballan Wrasse, female Cuckoo Wrasse  Gold Sinny, Scorpion Fish, Butterfish, Tompot Blenny, Cling Fish  shoals of Bib, Cat Shark, Conger eel.