Anglesey July 2003 - Trearddur Bay

Sunday 12th July saw one of the hottest days of the year. After the poor visibility of Bridlington a few weeks earlier it was decided to try the west coast. This proved to be an excellent decision.

We all arranged to meet at 9am in the first Little Chef on the A55 into north Wales. Picking the boat up at 6am from the farm, we arrived at just after 8am (2 hours from Staveley to the A55). After a somewhat protracted breakfast, we all set off and another one and a half hours saw us launching Mish Momken on the public slipway at Trearddur bay.

The tides were not with us on the day, being high tide at 10:09, so we were chasing a falling tide all day. This was not much of a problem, as we found a very nice sheltered spot giving us almost 18 metres going down to about 12 meters.

Miriam found lobsters to play with, visibility was up to 5 metres in places, and following the kelp found quite a few varieties of fish.

We had five new divers to British waters and this was a great introduction with everyone getting a dive from the boat. With 3 Instructors a Divemaster and two trainee Divemasters with us there was no lack of help.

During the day we organised a beach clean up amusing many of the day trippers. This kept everyone occupied on their surface intervals.

The sea was almost flat calm and exactly as the forecast. This made for excellent diving conditions and the general comment that this location should be considered very strongly for the next trip.

Mish Momken behaved herself and the new winch fitted in haste late on the Saturday evening (big thanks to John, Steve and Julie) worked brilliantly.

The whole day was topped off with a lovely meal at a pub somewhere on the way home.

TIDES	Time	Height
High	09:09 21:28	4.5 5.0
Low	03:13 15:34	1.0 0.9

It was agreed that Steve should do a boat handling course with specific instruction on slow maneuvers and collision avoidance.