Written by Tilly, Georgia, Marnie and Sophie
They say late nights lead to great ideas and last weeks post curry social was no different. Sophie and Tilly, desperate to be underwater, accosted Lewis to approve a night dive.
After some feedback from windy.com, babbacombe was clearly the best option. As the day approached, the nerves piled up and edu, lacking hope, imagined the worst. After an apprehensive drive down, the forward party of Edus car sent a message containing our fate. Disaster struck! No connection. We couldn’t read the message and were filled with distraught! As we pulled into Babbacombe a moment later PING -message received- “It looks brilliant ngl” Flooded with relief, we descended the perilous slopes of Babbacombe.
We thought our eyes were deceiving us as we drooled over the calm bay of Babbacombe. After a shining debut debrief from Tilly, the intrepid explorers kitted up with minimal faff.
Tilly, Georgia and Jack headed into the unknown. Some spectacular navigation from Jack led the trio to see a cat shark, lobsters, a conga eel and even squids! After a surface swim reminiscent of the Louis Shied, they returned to shore full of smiles and stories!
Next to brave the waters was Edu and Logan. They reported seeing squid, blennies and a Michelin star restaurants worth of lobsters. Marnie and Sophie also reported crabs, crabs and more crabs!
With all the divers safely out of the water and with all limbs intact (or at least we hope so), we got dry and packed up. Waving goodbye to the resident seal spotted earlier, we set off back to Bristol (obviously stopping for a cheeky maccies on the way!). Of note, McDonald’s sells pretty great pineapple sticks apparently…
Overall a successful November night dive with shockingly great visibility and lots of smiles!
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