Outer Castle, Simon's Town

As the wind had dropped on Thursday and turned to a light North Westerly, a group of us drove across to the Western side of False Bay to dive Outer Castle in Simon's Town.

The Viz was good at 15 metres and the sea was like a mirror. Launching from Miller's Point, we reached the dive site within 5 minutes.

After a quick and relaxed kit up, we rolled back into the water and descended to the beautiful boulders covered with purple and green sea urchins, millions of small orange sea cucumbers, striped and plum anemones, feather stars and fragile-looking strawberry anemones.

Sinuous sea fans played host to sponge crabs and false lacy coral; Jaco spotted a pale pipe fish lying motionless in the sand (thanks for sharing that one with us Jaco!), we spotted a pyjama shark and huge Red Romans and Janbruins skulked inside the larger swim throughs. We were approached by a very shy gully shark that quickly turned tail when it saw Deon. Not surprising, really!

There was so much to see, I could go on forever. Why don't you come along next time to experience it for yourself?