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General Travel/Other Locations/Lundy Island, United Kingdom

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Obsession II/Ocean Backpackers : "Seal diving off Lundy Island", Aug, 2019, by Faye Wilde , London, GB ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports with 5 Helpful votes). Report 11060.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	My dive club runs a trip here each year. We stay at the backpackers hostel in Ilfracombe and go out on the day boats to Lundy Island. The hostel is clean and comfortable and reasonably priced. There are plenty of cafes, pubs, restaurants etc within a 5-10 min walk and the jetty for the boats is only a few minutes walk away as well. Lundy Island is a protected area and the main attraction of diving here is the seals, who are super playful and extremely inquisitive. The best interaction is achiveved by wearing brightly coloured fins and hanging out in the shallows in the kelp so that they come to you. Aside from the seals, the diving here is beautiful with huge lobsters, lots of crabs, nudibranchs, wrasse, and beautiful anemone walls. Vis is extremely variable and was quite low this year when we visited as there were big Spring tides but it was still fabulous diving. Weather is also very variable as the island is quite exposed and the UK is famous for having lots of different weather in one day. Lundy is in fact my favourite place to dive in the whole of the UK though! We were on Obsession II and Lundy diving have other boats too. Obsession has lots of room for kit and places to sit inside and outside. It also has a lift so super easy to get out of the water. Another great weekend was had diving 2 dives Saturday and 2 dives Sunday. We did seal dives each morning and pinnacle / wreck dives in the afternoon. This gives a chance to see a good variety of what Lundy has to offer.
Websites	Obsession II Ocean Backpackers
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Several Red Sea trips in different locations, Tobago, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Mozambique, Thailand, Maldives, Madeira, Menorca, Malta, Gozo, Turkey, Iceland, Azores, Cape Verde and frequently in the UK where I am based.
Closest Airport	Bristol	Getting There	We travelled by road in the car to Ilfracombe and got day boats from there.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy
Water Temp	15-18°C / 59-64°F	Wetsuit Thickness	7
Water Visibility	2-10 M / 7-33 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Max 1 hour dive
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish	N/A
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	There is plenty of room on the boat for kit but you may want to bring your own box to rinse / protect larger camera rigs.

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Dive Review of Obsession II/Ocean Backpackers in General Travel/Other Locations/Lundy Island, United Kingdom

Obsession II/Ocean Backpackers : "Seal diving off Lundy Island", Aug, 2019,

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Dive Review of Obsession II/Ocean Backpackers in
General Travel/Other Locations/Lundy Island, United Kingdom