Welcome Foxfish (aka Martin) !
Hopefully you'll be joining a few trips when the water heats up... be good to see you in the water.
Tonight we went for a dive.
Several hours later we came back from the dive.
It started off innocently enough with a nice sandy shore entry and a short flip out past the shallow murk and into quite reasonable vis seeing all the little sand smelts hovering with massive shadows. I was out with Dave following the edge of a reef out to a point. On the way out I spotted a bass in the depths but it scarpered when I approached. Dave didn't see much on that side either... so we decided to head to another parallel reef.
It seemed like quite a long swim but both of us could see the side of the reef we were haeding for. However it didn't seem to be getting any larger.... a few drops onto the sand turned up a nice plaice and a nice sole - I left them both as they were on the small side and I was looking for red mullet.
Dave managed to find a red mullet and shortly after we realised that we had swum clean across the bay missing two parallel reefs ! Ooops ! Shows how confusing it can be at night - Dave just kept mutter "damned if I know where we are..." and I thought we were not where we ended up. Anyway on the swim back Dave spotted a large red squid eating a wrasse and then a large mullet which bumped my mask !
Anyway - another squid and back to the van... realised that it was not the summer any more and we had been in for a little over two hours ... ice block feet and hands.
Cheers
Ed
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