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Angle Bay, Pembrokeshire
...JULY 24TH 2008.
This was a day trip organised by Myself, Andrew and Neil, we had originally planned to dive Stackpole Quay but when we arrived there early in the morning there was a strong onshore wind blowing making the dive too dangerous.
| However, after Andrew had talked to a local lad in the shop it was decided to give Angle bay a try. Neil new the area well after spending a lot of his younger days messing around on the shore and fishing, but he had never seen anyone dive it. |
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| When we arrived there it was cloudy and there was on offshore wind blowing but after walking around we identified a good place to get in and most important!-----get out!. We were to dive the right hand side of the bay keeping close to the rocks. |
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| After kitting up we entered the water a bit after high tide, it was to be a good dive.A lot of our time was spent rummaging around in the kelp (Yes we are a bit strange) Maximum depth was around 6m and what surprised us was the amount of fish life, large numbers of wrasse , Pollack and gobies plus the occasional Spider, edible and velvet crabs. Also a few snakelock and beadlet anemones near the sandy areas. Dive time was 70 minutes with over 100 bar to spare! |
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| The surface interval was spent in the Café which is situated near the car park and beach, the sun was now out and shining on the righteous. | |
| The tide was now on the way out so kitted up quickly and headed down the beach past the sunbathers (Who obviously thought us mad) and out into the awaiting sea! The second dive was straight out to a rocky area we could see then head to the left to check out the gullies etc. |
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This dive was very shallow, no more than 4m and with the tide going back out the viz was down to 3m. Yet again Shoals of fish!---this time it was silver bass undoubtedly feeding on the shoals of fry that we encountered in several places. Also baby flat fish,hard to spot on the sand. On the smaller side of things it was nice to see Orange , club and Light bulb sea squirts amongst the animal turf. On both dives there were a variety of seaweeds including my favourite Rainbow weed which has iridescent blue on the leaf tips.
To top it off, upon our return to shore we came across a cave. We only ventured a short distance inside but it appeard to go a fair distance! We surfaced after a dive time of 50 minutes and around 130 bar to find that the tide was further out and we had a way to walk up the beach agaist the wind back to the car park!---------But it was worth it!