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Don't forget Cape Clear Island.Great Place for a weekend.. Great Pubs..
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14 March 2009, 10:16
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If you like more populated parts of the coast how about Eigg, Arran and the Oban area?
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14 March 2009, 15:30
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Its a 900 mile round trip to get there and back but around Ullapool and the Summer Isles takes some beating you have everthing, white sandy beaches, clear blue sea, loads of islands to explore and its surrounded by mountains.
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14 March 2009, 15:54
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This is turning out to be a grand read and I've added many a place to my wish list! Keep 'em coming 
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14 March 2009, 20:40
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Its a 900 mile round trip to get there and back but around Ullapool and the Summer Isles
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14 March 2009, 20:47
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Playing in the whirlpools of Strangford Lough NI was pretty magical. Snorkelling with the seals of Instrahull and camping on Rathlin Island something to be remembered 
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14 March 2009, 21:00
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Playing in the whirlpools of Strangford Lough NI was pretty magical. Snorkelling with the seals of Instrahull and camping on Rathlin Island something to be remembered
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What that man said!
Too windy for the planned dive today so went walking instead. Took a few pics of the coast for you all. The highest point on those cliffs is just shy of 2000 feet. Nice cruising in better weather  .
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14 March 2009, 23:03
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What that man said!
Too windy for the planned dive today so went walking instead. Took a few pics of the coast for you all. The highest point on those cliffs is just shy of 2000 feet. Nice cruising in better weather . |
Nice Willk.. Bet that bay in pic 3 has a few secrets
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14 March 2009, 23:13
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Nice Willk.. Bet that bay in pic 3 has a few secrets
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Damn sure it does, a lot of Armada kit went down hereabouts*.... I've been dropped off on one of those "beaches" in calm (very calm) WX and there are very deep & interesting caves/fissures running back into the cliff base. There's even a cave you can drive a large RIB into. The diving is mind blowing.
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14 March 2009, 23:14
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Some great photos' in this thread.
Really want to do Scotland this year, but forget the loch's I wanna do the coast! Irelands another wish list too. Willk, your very lucky!!
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15 March 2009, 10:07
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Got to be the tycoch pub on the beach you can just get wet on the inside and take in the view http://www.tycoch.co.uk/
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15 March 2009, 20:28
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Damn sure it does, a lot of Armada kit went down hereabouts*.... I've been dropped off on one of those "beaches" in calm (very calm) WX and there are very deep & interesting caves/fissures running back into the cliff base. There's even a cave you can drive a large RIB into. The diving is mind blowing.
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Is that Carrick-a-reed?
There are some interesting under water arches round the back of Rathlin, first one at 27m and next at 45m. The underwater drop off stops at 60m before reversing to form an underwater cliff. Never found the underwater cave though. Shout if you want the marks.
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15 March 2009, 21:24
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Is that Carrick-a-reed?
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No, damn that wide angle lens! Those cliffs are 600m. It's here:
Thanks German Tourists...
The Rathlin cliffs are a future project - but I'm not "Technical" (  )so unlikely to be at 45m+! Thanks though...
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15 March 2009, 22:52
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The Rathlin area is a good reason to go technical all on its own.
Audacious, Santa Maria and others in the area are mindblowing plus further out on the Justicia... wow! The bow is amazing and Titanic sized!
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15 March 2009, 23:09
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The Rathlin area is a good reason to go technical all on its own.
Audacious, Santa Maria and others in the area are mindblowing plus further out on the Justicia... wow! The bow is amazing and Titanic sized! |
Well yes, it does fire the imagination - if you've visited on Loyal Watcher or Salutay, that was probably us in those RIBs sliding in for a nosey when you were in the pub .
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15 March 2009, 23:15
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We didn't have mixed gasses last time I dived the arches, it was all on air 
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Been a couple of times on LW. It is something else to see folk 70m below you swimming around on a wreck as the vis is just that good.
There are only a few places in the world where you can see proper big guns on a battleship and I have been lucky enough to dive several of them including the Audacious. Seeing 13.5 inch shells scattered around the place is a sight, you don't see it very often.....
I actually stopped diving just over a year ago and sold all the kit to help buy the new RIB. Then I made the mistake of watching videos on Youtube of dives on wrecks that I always wanted to dive and never had a chance to do, now I am saving up to buy a Rebreather to go back and dive them!
Incidentally we are coming over to rathlin for a run in the next few months when we get better weather, will post when and where as we have an offer of accomodation in Campbeltown.
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16 March 2009, 00:58
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Some great photos' in this thread.
Really want to do Scotland this year, but forget the loch's I wanna do the coast! Irelands another wish list too. Willk, your very lucky!!
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Don't forget that a lot of the lochs are the coast. Some of us are lucky though. It takes me five minutes to get to the first picture, and an hour and a half to get to the second pic. and there's lots of amazing coast in between.
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16 March 2009, 08:49
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Don't forget that a lot of the lochs are the coast. Some of us are lucky though. It takes me five minutes to get to the first picture, and an hour and a half to get to the second pic. and there's lots of amazing coast in between.
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I think you may have nicked one of our beaches in that 2nd pic.
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16 March 2009, 12:47
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I think you may have nicked one of our beaches in that 2nd pic.
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No alystra's beach is MUCH better - there is no one else there!
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