Beer

 Guest log by Paul Williams

I dived with three buddies [in two pairs] at Beer on Sunday 4th May.

Viz was about five metres, though a fair bit of bloom made it quite speckled. Water temperature at the beach was 14C and 12C submerged. We were pleased to see a number of lobsters, crabs, a lone spider crab and some nice wrasse and dogfish.

The bottom had clearly been scoured by the winter storms, with a lot of rock that had obviously been covered with sand now showing as reef.

It is a shallow dive and we spent most of the hour of submerged time in 4 to 6 metres depth – maximum 7 metres.

Although it is potentially a good place for a training dive the parking [£5 per car per day] is very limited near the beach. Entry and exit is simple from the pebble beach, if a bit heavy on the knees and ankles.