Lovely Lizard
*This is a blog from last summer i didn’t post at the time as it wasn’t finished, but I might as well now*
After a slighly stressful week C & I got the chance to join a bunch of friends for a couple of dives off Celtic Cat. The weather was pretty terrible, with some wind arriving, the temperature dropping and the rain coming in heavy showers. Still, the sea was flat and the reports of good visibility from the earlier dives that we had missed had us excited.
The first questio was did we want to dive a kown wreck, or try and find a wreck off Lizard Point that had sunk on a reef in the late 1800’s and was difficult to find. Having never dived off the south of Lizard Point and expecting the best viz on the flood tide comingup to HW slack I was all too keen to agree with the wreck-nuts..except for me it was the reef that sounded promising!
On station nicely in time the shot was dropped and showed very little current running. We kitted up and dropped in. Immediately it was apparent that we were “on the viz”. The shotline stretched down below and we could see the first divers in a good 15 metres or more below us. Flying down the shot the reef came into view. It was large, rounded rocks, with sheer-sided gullies, floored with white sand between. Lying almost next to the shot, convinced he was invisible was a small turbot. Completely reliant on his camouflage pattern he stayed stock-still whilst I photographed him. Being able to get up close to a fish like this is always a real buzz. You get to examine the way they are put together, and just how amazing the patterns formed by their scales are.
