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| charlie |
Glen Douglas Road Endold red eyes is back...
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| scubaeuan |
Reminds me of someone...... | ||
| joe |
What a friendly looking sea critter | ||
| charlie |
A good couple of dives yesterday at GDRE. 1st time that any of our party had been there although I think cheeky & gus had dived it before.
The weather wasn't kind, but we managed to get parked close by & had the site to ourselves. The parking is on the other side of the road and access involves climbing over a crash barrier, through a wood and down a rocky path. It's a bit tricky fully kitted but much easier than The Caves or Gorton Point. There's a small shore which was almost fully submerged at high tide. Our plan was to go in as a 3, drop down to 32m max, come up to 20m & then for Euan & Erika to do a shared ascent. However, when we submerged and descended, the big man had bother with his ears & had to abort. We took him back up to 3m and sent him upwards. Erika & I continued down to 31m. Very dark down there just like it often is at The Caves with a lot of turbidity in the shallows robbing us of light at depth. We headed back up the fairly steep featureless silty slope not spotting the supposed walls and drop-offs. There was the odd crustacean and occasional fish but not a lot else to report. Was still a nice dive though and well worth doing. After a nice lunch, we tried again as a 3. We all managed to get down this time and fortunately spotted the wall which was slightly to our left. We headed over to it and followed it down. It's quite impressive: big vertical slabs of rocks in a step like conformation and covered in sealoch anemones and peacock worms. Erika's torch failed at about 20m so I gave her my spare and we continued down to 31m. Down there we found a traffic cone covered in anemones: I think that the others took some photos of it. We made our way at a leisurely pace back up the walls, spotting a nice dragonet on the way up. Quite an effortless dive really & a great place to get depth (it goes down to 50m+ apparently). If you find the drop-offs it's well worth doing, otherwise it's pretty bland. I think that I could find them again however (maybe) 
We had some enjoyable drinks in the Village Inn & saw some of the Eastwood divers who'd been at the apparently mobbed Conger Alley. I think that we made a good choice: let's go back some time! 
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| enc01 |
[color=red]nice picture charlie. a couple of mine turned out not too bad. i'll try to upload them but i'm not that good with these things. hope it works.
A good days diving! Mmmm 30+ meters what fun! just need to find a drysuit with central heating now, to keep me warm. Erika[/color] [url=http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/15422/DSCF4178.JPG][img]http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/_15422/DSCF4178.JPG[/img][/url] [size=9][color=red]Click to see full size image[/color][/size] [url=http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/15423/DSCF4180.JPG][img]http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/15423/DSCF4180.JPG[/img][/url] |
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| enc01 |
The photo's i uploaded can be viewed in the gallery. To find the go into the Marine Biology & Photography section of the forum and select New feature. Then click the link. There is probabaly an easier way to view the gallery but i don't know what it is. Maybe Charlie could help me out here.
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| admin |
Erika, thanks a lot for posting the photos. They wouldn't show in your previous post due to a setting in your profile. I've now corrected it but I guess it doesn't work retrospectively, so here's what it should have looked like (hopefully the feature will work for you in future):
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| charlie |
Nice one, Erika!
The bottom photo is the traffic cone if I'm not mistaken (can see the red plastic shining through). Good photography skills at 31m!
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| enc01 |
You are correct charlie, but it was more luck than anything that it turned out good. It was a point and pray photo. Erika |
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| charlie |
I've posted another few photos from this trip on my web pages | ||
