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Alternative Names: Anchor bay, Lephinchapel Reef.
Type of Dive: Shore dive
Suggested Experience: Sport diver
Travel directions: Leaving Glasgow on the A82 turn left at Tarbet onto the A83, through Arrocher and over the rest and be thankfull, turn left onto the A815, The lay-by is about half-way between Lephinchapel and Gortein. Multimap
Parking directions: See the picture below, there is room for 4 cars at the top of the path.
Lat & Long:
Site entry/exit: Follow the path down through between the trees to the beach. There is a big rock on the right. Enter the water at the left of the rock (facing the water). .
Underwater directions: Tide Tables The two ways to dive here are down to the 20m mark on each reef and zig zag up the reef looking in the small holes and cracks where you will see goldsinny wrasse and its good for lions mane jellys . or you can head down the reef to 30m where there are Plumose anemone and round the two points and zig zag up the reef. See the u/w map below.
Air & Nitrox fills: Aquatron Splashsports
Site Hazards: Sometimes there is a small current.
Nearest Public phone: Creggans Inn
B+B: Creggans Inn Kanes Hotel
Mobile Network service:
Pub: Creggans Inn
Café:
Version: 2
Created by: S Russell
Date: 5/5/07
Surface Photos:
U/Water Photos: John Nicolson WEBCAM
Plumose anemone Long legged spider crab
Divesite map:
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Dive Report: Dive Tramp, Aug 07
Site; Anchor Bay/Point. LW; 1045 BST, 0.3m HW; 1732 BST, 3.1m, Sea State; Flat, Wind; F0-1, N-NW, Vis; 5-8m on Ebb, 3-5m on Flood, better viz below 12m (the silt gets blown off the silty/sandy reef to the left of the site at peak tidal flow!) Max Depth; 27.5m Weather; Sunny of course!,with a wee bit cloud coming over.After the horrendous weather on Saturday it was an enormous relief to wake up onsite at Anchor Bay/whatever..., in EDNA, to find I'd managed to plan yet another days diving in Perfect Weather! A new site to four of the party, so very nice to be able to use Finstrokes Site Guide pics and drawings (many thanks Stew!) in my site briefing. Not to rap on all day, Everyone had a great day with most managing three dives in the time we were onsite, 10am-6pm, and a couple of milestones to mark too.
Dive Report: Dive Tramp, Jan 09
Just back from two great (if not a little chilly) dives at Anchor Point where it seems today was Archidoris Pseudoargus nudibranch egg laying day. We were even witness to a midwater dance from a Doris! Unfortunately, even tho I had pressed the video button on the camera and thought I had been taking a "snap" of about a minute, it turns out the camera had a glitch and only recorded 0.01 seconds of film! However I did get a few shots of the "girls" laying their eggmasses.
