Millers Point launch After a day of intermittent and at time torrential rain, Sunday dawned and it was a pearler. We met Barry at the slip at Miller’s Point, which is just outside Simon’s Town, and with five divers in total we launched at around 11.30am and drove to a dive site close to Outer Castel.

The visibility was good, around 15 meters, although quite green, and around 14 degrees Celsius. Barry, who was top manning for this dive, anchored up and we bailed over shortly thereafter. The reef profile was fantastic, huge boulder like structures covered in all sorts of sea life, with plenty of red roman and smaller reef fish to keep things interesting.

 

Outer Castle RockCape waters really are a whole new playing field for me, and I’m really looking forward to exploring the massive diversity that the southern cape has to offer. Its going to take some time to get used to stalking and taking images on SCUBA and on the Inspiration, but the access that these technologies promise for certain subjects, particularly the Inspiration without the bubbles, is incredible. We’ve agreed to aim for a pool session on the Inspiration on Wednesday, which means I need to get in some time with the dry suit that Sijmon has kindly lent me - either way I think its going to happen this week. For more pics from the dive, click here.