Diving in Jersey    

We'd been meaning to make a trip out to Jersey since we arrived in London, but somehow had never quite managed to organise it.  I'd met Dave while diving out in Philippines a few years back and always meant to try out a colder water dive in what I thought was the English Channel.  It turns out Jersey's actually a fair way south of the channel and really closer to France that England which probably means the water is a fair bit warmer too.

Our time in London was fast running out, so I looked into it once more and bought daytrip tickets two days in advance and hoped Dave might be around to catch up with.  We set off from London at 3:30am for what turned out to be just a two and a half hour drive to Weymouth, from where the ferries out to the Channel Islands leave from.  

  After a short stop in Guernsey on the way, we made the 100km journey in about three and a half hours and managed to get a little sleep in.

We only had barely a day and Dave and his fiancée Nadia met us at the wharf and we set off for a whirlwind tour of the island.  We even managed to get a dive in at Bouley Bay although it took a bit of calling around to sort out equipment when we found the dive shop closed.  Luckily Darren, a buddy of Dave's had a compressor to fill up some empty tanks.

One last stop to see the castle and a Jersey cow before wandering around town with the rest of the day-trippers who had all spent the day shopping.  We finally made it back home to London at about 4am - absolutely exhausted.