Porthkerris June 07
Arriving just before one of the frequent showers that were to plague us most of the weekend, I hastily put up my tent before the heavens opened again……… this was the annual YD visit to Porthkerris.
Friday saw all the early arrivals for this years gig managing to get in a couple of dives off the RIB which ran back and forth off the beach and out to the manacles four times during the course of the day.
Although I have done a fair few dives in the area over the last couple of years Vase Rock was a first. Never have I seen so many or such a varied collection of jewel anemones in such a small area. The rocks were smothered with clumps of colours that seemed almost fluorescent in places they were so incredibly bright.
Saturday dawned rather wet and dismal and despite a night of very heavy rain it was actually a neighbouring camper who kept waking me up with the thundering snores that emanated from his tent.
We were diving from Celtic Cat for the rest of the weekend and due to the popularity of this gig she was taking out a boat full to do two dives in the morning and then another boat full in the afternoon. Although Cornwall, like the rest of the country, had been plagued with bad weather for several weeks the visibility was not as poor as I had feared it might be and we had another good couple of dives first of all on the Caroni Rivers and another on Vase Rock. This sea cucumber appeared to be grazing on these jewel anenomes but I have yet to find out whether they do or not.
Another barbeque was on the cards for that evening, which included the haul of scallops from the previous days dive that had been hung over the side of the boat to keep them fresh. Having done the ‘hunter’ bit some of the guys wanted to build a fire on the beach and went off to now do the ‘gathering’ bit returning with an amazing array of burnable stuff including what seemed like half a tree!
And finally resorting to the usual way so many men have of expressing themselves after a beer or two or three 
Sunday arrived with a steady drizzle of rain putting the more faint hearted off who decided to call it a day and hit the road for home. This did of course mean there was a bit more space on the boat and we had a couple of excellent dives on the City of Ghent and the Citrene. Whilst we only glimpsed the sun briefly on our return back to porthkerris it had still been a great weekend in terms of diving and catching up with people.
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