South West Ramblings 6

Mark Webster · Issue 75, Nov/Dec 2013 · pp. 62–67

Products mentioned: Nikon D300, Subal ND2 housing, 10-17mm FE zoom, Inon Z240 flash guns

“Summer time and the living is easy.....” or so the song goes and after several years of very poor summers in the UK the words are finally appropriate! So at long last during July we were blessed with more than two weeks of continuous sunshine, light winds and calm conditions whilst a high pressure system barely moved over the UK whilst we were bombarded by the media with claims of numerous heat wave records being surpassed. The UWP gods were obviously smiling on me as this coincided perfectly with my leave rota in Norway and I arrived home plotting numerous diving excursions to normally inaccessible sites. Plans even included a daring trip across the border between the counties of Cornwall and Devon, an excursion not to be taken lightly but the rewards were high….a touch of magic (MV Magic that is…) and variety during another day out on our revered editor’s charter boat from Dry Stack M…