Wintry weather and wild waters – Kyle 25/26th October
January 11, 2009 5:45 pm Club Trip ReportsOn our (not so) recent club trip to Kyle of Lochalsh we were treated to some of the wildest weather that Scotland has to offer. Given our track record over recent years you’d have to question our decision to make Kyle the location for our last club dive trip of the year and this year was certainly no exception! It was wild, wild, wild. So much so that on the Saturday it just wasn’t safe to set to sea and we had to make do with a day trip onto Skye for a bit of sight-seeing. Unlike a previous rather embarrassing episode in the history of the club where we were weathered out in Oban, we didn’t resort to stopping somewhere for a nice cup of tea and a chat. Instead, we watched Alan get all Japanese tourist (photographic evidence below) with the spectacular weather and then had a pint in Portree.
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The weather improved sufficiently on Sunday for us to carry out a dive on the Port Napier – a wreck familiar to many Scottish divers – despite decidedly chilly conditions and squally showers passing over. It was one of those dives where you hardly want to make your way back to the surface with the knowledge that what you’re returning to is a world apart from the tranquil conditions underwater. Nobody was in a hurry to get back in the water again as the day didn’t look to be improving much, so we loaded up and headed back East again. Let’s hope that our next visit to Kyle is blessed with spectacular weather at the opposite end of the spectrum!
