Exmouth Dock

After a dreary day, the sun got out for a fantastic evening. At the quay (made it though the rush-hour) I had a look around; the tide was still racing in and it was very choppy below the quayside, but the vis looked 'ok'. Diving were Clint and Hilary, Phil and Nik, Derek and Geoff, Kevin and me, with Brian shore cover.

We went in just after HW and did just over 30 minutes at an average depth of 11m. Jumped off the dock, and able to get back out on ladder (just). Current made it hard work here and there, but staying low and going steady we didn't have any problems. Vis was >4 metres.

Tompot blennies. They were everywhere -watching us from crevices and holes- it was blenny city. There were some shannies too in the shallows. There were ballan and goldsinny wrasse, and nice school of pollack. Near the cave, Kevin freed a small pollack caught on some abandoned line. A further on we saw a big fresh water eel. The terrain was varied (boulders, rocks, the cave, piles of shells, and mussels, and junk with plenty of hiding places).

Everyone had a really good time; Kevin and I had a good look round, Clint and Hilary fed the fish, Derek took some brilliant pictures of blennies and crab, Phil found a porthole, and Nik found some sort of gun. The coin I found turned out to be a 2p.