Eight hours driving, three shore dives, eight hours back…………crazy?
Quite possibly!
Loch Fyne had been very high up on my list of things I wanted to do this year. Like many of the sea lochs in Scotland the photographs I had seen told of a wide variety of marine life that was lurking below the surface. During […]
Several times I had hoped to do the shore dive near the pier at Lochaline but had never got round to it. Reputed to have a steep drop off to 90m it was meant to be a fruitful dive in terms of marine life. Most trips to Lochaline for a weekend diving the Sound of […]
Watching the lights of Kirkwall twinkling in the distance I felt that familiar buzz of excitement that comes when I’m waiting to board aeroplanes and ferries. It’s the anticipation of all the new sights and sounds to come and sitting beneath the harsh glare of the ferry ports lights I was impatient to be on […]
In the few days before my week diving off Valkyrie I retraced my steps and returned to many of the places that I had visited last year such as Wee Fea which was an operations centre on Hoy during the war. The place fascinates me and I love wandering through the deserted rooms imagining how it […]
Don’t you just love to be woken up by the banging of doors…………….not. However it does do away with the necessity of setting the alarm should you be staying at the Dive Centre in Lochaline
The spring mechanisms on the doors of the drying room and showers mean that they slam shut every time someone goes […]
I have been incredibly lucky this year and had the opportunity to vist Scapa twice. The second time was to stay on the liveaboard MV Halton.
I was delighted to be able to do this as it gave me the opportunity to meet skipper Bob Anderson, ‘the man behind the blog’ which I have reading […]
As we drove up towards the Trotternish Peninsular and away from the busier south the natural beauty of the island and the mountains becomes more evident, as do the silly sheep and occasional highland cow who block the road at times. I am very cautious when edging my car past these very solid creatures, as […]
This was the dive that started off our weeks diving up in Skye and what a way to start the week, a photographer’s heaven……….stuff everywhere………and a fascinating wreck to boot!
The weeks diving on Skye was another Yorkshire Divers gig and about half of the group had arranged to meet up and dive the Port Napier […]
Diving Scapa Flow has been something I have wanted to do for some time. It was really a question of finding the right sort of trip as many are very ‘techie’ orientated. So I was delighted when Hazel skipper of Stormdrift decided to run a low key week aimed at people like me and advertised […]
Why is it that so often parents expect you to find the excrement of their offspring as inoffensive as they do!
Drying my hair in the shower block of the campsite where I was staying I was trying to ignore the pungent smell of s**t emanating from the nappy that had been dumped underneath the hairdryer. […]