Diving at Easter can be little unpredicatble. Spring tides and Spring weather can both contrive against you. So it was quite a surprise to see the the forecast weather maps showing a huge high pressure system that would hopefully give us good weather, and it did not disappoint.

Myself (Peter), Alice and Martyn travelled in a van kindly borrowed by Martyn and it was great to have so much space for kit even if we where a little squashed in the cab.

Good Friday's weather was beatiful, blue sky and the lightest of breezes giving flat water, ideal for spotting a large school of either small dolphins or porpoise. They were surfacing in pairs and took several minutes to pass the boat. Our morning dive was on the James Egan Layne. After dinner onboard we dived the YYYY

The Saturday morning was nearly as nice, a light breeze giving a slight sea.

Sunday didn't have the great weather of the previous day. A light layer of cloud meant it was cooler but with still only a very light breeze the boat trips were easy and so was kitting-up. After the morning dive on HMS Scylla we headed across the bay to dive Hilsea Point.

Monday was another nice day, ideal for our run out to the Eddystone Rock. I have been trying to dive this since the early 1990's. At the end of Bovisand Training week the instructors would go and have a pleasure dive. In the pre-GPS era this usually meant wasting hours searching for a wreck and then diving a reef instead. I always suggested the Eddystone as an alternative but no-one else ever had the same enthusiasm. Although it was still too early in the season to see the marine life in full colour it was still an excellent dive and great to surface uncer the lighthouse.

Our afternoon dive was in the vicinity of the Abelard. An enjoyable bimble amongst the rocks outside the breakwater.