UKDIVING
Sea hare at Eilean Nan Ron found in the burgeoning life that colonised the giant pinnacles – and we had been privileged to witness that in all its raw and colourful beauty .
While we had been under , the Southerly winds had grown in strength , so once all divers were back the boat headed southwest on a six-hour long steam to a sheltered area of the north coast of
A storm across the Minch
Scotland called Eilean nan Ron , where we anchored for the night . During this , dinner was served . The boat lurched and heeled , sending plates of spaghetti Bolognese sliding the full length of the galley tables . One of our divers , who wasn ’ t paying the requisite amount of attention to stabilising his dinner , ended up as the victim of a small tsunami of Bolognese !
Rapid Response
Over the next two days we completed four dives at two superb sites at Eilean nan Ron and Eilean Cluimhrig . We attempted to round Cape Wrath into The Minch , but the gigantic swells forced us back into the lee of the rugged north coast . Our dives there were in massive fissures in the cliffs , the walls of which were covered in a breath-taking array of colourful life – not to mention the shoals of mackerel , pollock , ling , juvenile herring , solitary wrasse and curmudgeonly congers in cracks between great steep ledges .
Geology was a big feature here too . One dive was on a roughly rectangular pinnacle of rock , dropping to 35m . The seabed around the pinnacle was strewn with huge rectangular blocks of such even proportions , they looked manmade . Like great tumbled henges from some gigantic neolithic collapse . We were looking at the jumbled remains of a massive sea-stack that long ago had towered above the waves . In another swim-through cave under the cliffs ,
Scotland ’ s rugged north coast
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