Dave, Helen, Susan and Colin Elcock,
Simon Ellwood, Pete Buck, Dr Paul Talyor, David Norris, Tony Barker, Ray Budd, Michael and Maxine Armes.

off on a diving trip to Pwllheli on the Shearwater.

The Shearwater is a purpose-built luxury catamaran charter cruiser that operates from Pwllheli Marina, on the beautiful Lleyn Peninsula coastline.

It is ideal for scuba diving with the dive deck set up to take up to 12 divers with kit comfortably. It had a nice warm cabin which you could not go in wearing wet gear but this did not matter as after every dive we got a hot drink and cake:)

The weather closed in for the second dive and we ended up doing rather a strange shallow dive (7m) off Llanderog head across a field of hermit crabs, star fish, very large snails and pipe fishes.

 

Some of the divers had a touch too much sun. Dr Paul was the butt of a few jokes when he put athlete's foot cream on his head, but this paled into insignificance when he put pile cream on his face on the first dive of day two after swam into a jelly fish!

The final dive was excellent diving Twrn Carreg'y Tir on the other side of Hells Mouth. We were dropped by a cliff face with a series of gullies dropping down to a sandy bottom at 20m. There were loads of invertebrates, spider crabs, edible crabs, velvet crabs and lobsters, white flat worms with concentric brown circles, purple nudibranchs and star fishes. The visibility was good and the diving very relaxed.

On the way back we saw Dolphins:)