Weather forecast good, 8 keen divers wanting to get wet on the traditional February weekend to Plymouth.
We were all set a keen but were left without the club boat due to faulty tires on the trailer. The tires had only few miles on them but on inspection were completely unsafe to use. These faults are currently being investigated by the suppliers and no doubt we'll have more news on this soon!

As part of the weekend was to be to introduce Lucy to her first open water dives after finishing pool training and not wanting to disappoint her Sue and I decided to take her shore diving. Fortunately the weather looked fine for this on the South coast and rather then spending loads of money going to Stoney with the masses decided to head off to Devon.

It was a good choice, we set off 07:00am Sat morning and was in Brixham before lunch. We managed two dives on Saturday from Breakwater Beach where Lucy completed a number of training drills and assessments with flying colours, she certainly made a good impression for saying it was her first dives in the sea with full kit including drysuit.

After a curry and a night in a B & B next morning we headed for a site that Sue and I had never dived before - Babbacombe Beach. After filling our cylinders we headed down to the rather limited parking by the the shingle beach.
We managed two more dives here, this is a site worth remembering as its completely sheltered from all but NE winds and it really is an interesteing site for shore diving.

We then headed back up the M5 homewards with no traffic jams at all!!!

So all in all a good weekend, it was warm and sunny, the sea temp was around 8c and calm and Lucy had good introduction to UK diving. With going Sat morning the overall cost per dive was probably no more then doing 2 dives in freezing Stoney and the experiance for our student was far better.