A good day at Wraysbury, yes it is possible

[IanD]

This year I decided to give LIDS a miss and go for a dive instead, especially when I looked in my log book and saw that it had been six months since my last dive . The only problem was I had no buddie, but the power of YD came to the rescue. A quick post mid week and Gav PM'd saying he was up for a dip at Wraysbury. Not the most glamorous of dive sites I grant you, but as we both want to test new kit set ups it was perfect. Gav had a new Frog wing he wanted to try for the first time and I waned to try out side slinging my new ali pony.
I arrived at the site about 15 min before it opened and was expecting to have to queue but I drove straight in and was about the fifth car there, my theory about everyone being at LIDS looked like it had worked
Anyway before I even had a chance to turn my engine off up popped the money pixie (if you have been to Wraysbury you know who I mean), as I was handing over my 6 quid Gav arrived, perfect timing.
The next hour was spent drinking tea and faffing with kit, I forgot how long it can take if you haven't kited up in a while. Then we were off into the murky water, even though we were some of the first in there was still only about 2m of viz. The plan was to do a lap of the lake for about 30 min, probably more by luck than judgement that is exactly what we did, during our gentle bimble round we managed to find the sunken boats and even the plastic elephant.
We had no dramas or kit problems, everything worked fine.
I was happy to get back in the water and the side slung pony worked great, Gav was happy with his new wing.
The sun had shone all day and England won the rugby, and thanks to Gav I managed to get a long over due dive in.

[markosis]

Ah. The power of Wraysbury.

I thought I'd get away with a decent dive for this weekend.

And it was rough seas, zero vis and I vommed. I'd have been better off in Wraysbury.

[Gav]

You certainly would have been!

Thanks Ian, a good day had by all

Gav