Just a few words from our last expedition to Teignmouth.
07 May 2010
Morgan and Hannah, Jim Bruce, Wendy, Richard, Keith and I made it to our lovely cottage on a late cold Friday evening. To our surprise, we found the little sea town very quiet for a bank holyday weekend. Apart from the busy dive centre which is conveniently 
located just a few yards from the slipways and mooring pontoon, we were the only group of divers to be seen on those three days.
On Monday the most courageous managed to dive three sites: London Bridge, The wreck of the Bretagne and Parson and Clerk. On Tuesday we dived the Watcombes Caves and due to adverse weather, no one really fancied 8miles being tossed around to reach the Lord Stewart; instead we stopped not too far offshore to the dive site of the Galicia. It was a good alternative (for those who had a chance to dive it!) and being 18msw deep, Richard finally managed to tick all the boxes on his training log book. Well done Richard! Finally on the Monday, the two previous diving days in a 9 degrees sea were felt as we decided to dive only once before heading back home. We went back to the wreck of the Bretagne, and it was a very good way to finish the weekend.
To me the big surprise was the caves in Watcombe; I was pretty anxious that we will not find them but good advices from local divers through Yorkshire Divers and we were spot on. The vis. on site was very good between 4 to 6 meters and there was a lot to see.
Richard and I were buddy on this one. The first cave we found narrowed too much too quickly and we turned it a few meters in. we then found a very inviting large swim through where we met Jim, Hannah and Morgan who were coming the other way. That was quite funny! Coming out of it and gliding gently North we came across another cavern entrance which turned out to be one huge room. Unfortunately, too soon it was time to retrace our way back and it was with much regret that we surfaced. London Bridge was also a good one and the Bretagne a nice wreck in still a good nick with plenty of life.
We didn’t make it to town at all after diving during this trip. I will blame this on two things: the first one is myself who gave early rope off times which means early wake up times and we were so tired by the end of the evening that most of us were in bed by ten! The second one will be Hannah who cooked delicious food in “Gargantuesque” quantity.
Thank very much for all who braved atrocious traffic condition and made it happen.
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