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Golden Lions, golden sands: camping trip to Anglesey
Who are your members?
Our 37 members range from complete beginners to experienced divers. Ours is a supportive environment where everyone wants to help each other out. We have nine trainees, nine Ocean Divers, 10 Sports Divers, seven Dive Leaders, and two Advanced Divers. Between them they logged some 540 dives last year. We encourage progression for everyone. We seem to be attracting lots of juniors; at present most of our Ocean Diver trainees are under-18s.
Where do you go diving?
We always love going to the sea, Anglesey has some of the best dive sites around. Porth Castell, Treaddur Bay, is probably our favourite site, it’ s a nice shore dive, with easy entry and exit, plenty of life to be seen and if timed correctly, you can dive the gully, which is a fabulous experience. There’ s a lovely beach and members often bring family along to enjoy the day. We also
dive inland. Capernwray is about two hours away and we go to Vivian sometimes. Last year we headed south for a weekend trip to Stoney Cove, to provide depth progression for our Sports Divers.
Tell us more about diving in Anglesey
We run two family camping weekends to Anglesey every year, normally shore diving. The diving is amazing; we are so lucky to live near Anglesey. You can normally find somewhere good to dive, no matter the wind direction. Porth Trecastell,( Cable Bay) is a great site, with a variety of life including spider crabs, nudibranchs, cat sharks and some thornback rays. It is suitable for diving all year round and is brilliant for night dives as it’ s shallow, usually less than 10m. Menai Bridge Nature Trail is a more challenging dive, with slippy rocks on entry and exit. You also need to time it just right, viz can be
Mary McCarry, Rik White and Harriet Way at Vivian quarry
Members about to dive Llyn Padarn
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Rik White, Tim Owens and Gary Tomkins at Capernwray