Gozo : Sept 2009

Some Indepth holiday "die-hards" and lots of "newbies" all met at Heathrow and bonded over a quick drink before our flight to Malta. This bonding and drinking theme continued over the next 5 evenings along with some great dives during the day!

After a short flight to Malta, we travelled in taxis across the island to catch the ferry to Gozo where Stephania, our diving host from Atlantis Diving Centre was waiting to greet us. Thanks to Dave who bought enough beers for a whole round on the ferry, unlike someone else who didn't buy enough whilst waiting for the crossing. (I told you I would not forget this ...... !!)

Gozo is a small island off Malta in the Mediterranean. This island has some of the best diving the Med has to offer with a wide selection of shore or boat dives, caves, caverns and wrecks.

We dived with Atlantis, an extremely professional and well-organised dive centre run by Brian and Stephania. Indepth had used the centre in previous years and we were treated like old friends. Although we were not the only group diving with Atlantis, we received excellent service and personal attention and even managed to keep to Brian's strict time keeping!

During our trip we dived some wonderful sites, including the Blue Hole and Inland Sea, two famous sites on Gozo. Congratulations to everyone on being willing to brave the cliff on Day 1 to see Cathedral Cave which made the entry at the Blue Hole seem so easy on Day 2! Think one of the highlights of the trip for many of us was feeding the fish and swimming through the tunnels at Comino Caves - it certainly was for me seeing Kathy in "heaven" surrounded by the bream.