Trips
Lulworth Y2K
The 2000 trip to Lulworth Cove this year was a great success. Though there was a small turn out this year, due to exams, the small group gelled well and had a lot of fun.
This year was different to previous years as we decided to try out some different dive sites to the ones we usually stick to around Lulworth.
On the Saturday we went to Swanage Pier. This turned out to be a great dive site. We were able to walk onto the pier (for a small fee) and set up camp for the day on one of the lower levels of the pier. We used the platform as a high entry point (nicely using the step-in entry to get into the water) and then snorkelled around the new pier for a while. There were a lot of divers hanging around the new pier, which stirred up the visibility. So we moved over to the old pier, which really is better suited to snorkelling. A number of snorkellers saw fish and crabs in amongst the rotting pillars of the old pier. We all had a good look in the many abandoned lobster pots there too.
That evening after a good meal at the youth hostel in Lulworth where we stay each year, we went to the Castle Pub, just down the road. We had a chat about the day over a drink and talked about what we were going to do on Sunday.
Sunday morning poured down, but despite of this we were there, down at Stair Hole in the rain. The rain had unfortunately made the clay cliffs a tad slippery however, which lead to some interesting climbing down to the dive site. Once at the bottom, and after washing off the caked clay from our bodies, we kitted up for the dive.
We snorkelled out into the hole, had a look in St Clements Cave, and then snorkelled out to sea through the gap in the cliff and snorkelled round the cliff wall, looking at the kelp fields below us. The water was fairly rough, but we managed to keep together and snorkelled back into the hole through another gap in the cliff. Great fun.
After a while we got out and got dry and headed for Poole to have our packed lunch and look around the shops before coming home.
It was a good weekend, thoroughly enjoyed by all.
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Junior Snorkelling Club
