Mary Doune 4/2007 - West Lothian Sub Aqua Club

	West Lothian Sub Aqua Club Scotland MV Mary Doune 20-22 April, 2007.

A wonderfull weekend's diving on the MV Mary Doune with Skipper Andy Tibbets at the helm.
The weather on Saturday morning was not too great but we headed out to Canna never the less. The first dive, Sgeir a Phuirt reef is a columnar basalt wall that drops down from the surface to 31 metres with white shelly sand covered with Cerianthus anemones on the bottom. After lunch in the tea room on Canna we motored round and dived on Langanish Point. This is another columner basalt wall but this time the bottom is at 17 m.
At dinner in the restaurant at Doune after our delicious meal. Clockwise round the table, starting from the left:- Alistair Stewart, Andy Tibbets, Iain Graham, Jim Anderson, Lorraine Graham, Audrey Johnston, James Anthony, Gordon Young, Jenny Young, Steve mclaughlin, Ian Seath, Derek Bryce, Gordon McSkimming and Jack Morrison. Photograph by Anita the Canadian waitress.
Sunday brought no significant change in the weather but as we packed Kermit with our gear a local otter appeared on the shore calling to us. We headed down to Muck for the first dive on Godag Reef. This is a superb rolling rock wall that drops from 6 m to depths beyond where we would ever want to go. It is covered in magnificent carpets of jewel anemones at the top and cup corals deeper down. The final dive of the trip was on a lovely vertical basalt cliff on the east side of Eigg at Rubh na Crannog.
Photographs by Jim Anderson.
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