Kayakas!

With visibility around the 20m mark, a speed of around three and half knots, flying over massive areas of deadmens’ fingers (that I named fields of fingers), seeing a skate with a wingspan that was at least four foot, this was possibly one of the best UK drift dives I have done. It certainly was the most memorable.

This dive was part of a week’s diving off the north end of Skye with skippers Dave and Alan from Lochaline Charter Boats. We were back out near a group of islands that we had dived before but this time near the island of Gaeilavore. Once again there was a lot of kelp as we dropped in the water round about 10m. This is due to the clearer water letting the light through to sustain the growth and it doesn’t really peter out until you were around the 20m mark on many of the dives in this area.