Rozi and Jellies

We dived at Cirkewwa point again today. There was more wind and it had swung round into the North West. This meant there was a bit of swell, but nothing too challenging. After an easy entry and a swim to the North, Trev and I took a bearing on the Rozi wreck buoy and descended. The Rozi wreck was very easy to find- I could see the bubble trails of the group of divers almost straight away. Rozi is intact, upright and surrounded by a shoal of small fish. After a few shots of the whole wreck, I swam around the bow and discovered a moray being cleaned by a shrimp. However, the shrimp was on the wrong side of the fish, but this did not stop me racking up some deco.

After finally leaving the wreck, we swam along the edge of the reef under a large group of fried egg jellyfish (Cothyloriza tuberculata). These large jellyfish had been swept in by the wind and were surrounded by shoals of fish. After spending some time with these, our empty tanks forced us to return to the shore.

Scotland Road Trip Day 6

I’m told that the mountains of Scotland are rising up, following the melting of the glaciers from the last ice age. That’s roughly how I felt after our first dive; I think I regained another inch of height having toiled up the hill from the dive site! It was worth it though…

We made an early start and left our lovely location on Ard Neakie on the shore of Loch Eriboll in time to dive at slack water in the narrows at Kylesku. Earlier in the trip, we had noted how the current ripped through such a narrow channel.

Moon Jellyfish

The water is much clearer here than many of the other lochs we have dived, and any sediment is swept away by the fierce tides. The visibility is not perfect though, and the loch water draining through still held a frustrating amount of sediment.

Kelp thrashing in the current