Club Dive at Babbacombe - May 07
Being my first dives of the year I was really looking forward to what has now become an annual meeting for the club at Babbacombe. Even finding that my strobe had decided to prolong its winter hibernation and was refusing to work did not dampen my enthusiasm after five months of being dry. Although Babbacombe is only shallow I like it because there is usually plenty to see if the viz is reasonable……. unfortunately for us this wasn’t to be one of those times! The only chance of seeing anything on this particular weekend was to stay at around 3-4m. Swimming out further and deeper to an effort to find better viz only resulted in being enveloped in clouds of plankton so thick I couldn’t see my computer and it was only with nose pressed to compass that I managed to find my way back in the right direction towards the shore. Any hope of getting cuttlefish photos rapidly disappeared as did most of the cuttlefish I saw. One look at me and they quickly vanished into the soupy murk. However we did manage to see some other things as well.
Whilst a crappy weekend in terms of viz it was a nice weekend with half of us camping and enjoying a great barbeque on Saturday evening.
