Al had answered my call for a dive buddy who was keen to dive up around Loch Sunart and Lochaline. We headed off early Saturday morning and caught the Corran ferry across. No solid plans on dive sites, just armed with a few possibilities from the web. We were blessed by some excellent sunny weather. Travelled the length of Loch Sunart up to Portuairk. Lovely white sand beach, clear water, but it did not look promising for any sort of depth. Potentially a good snorkelling site. We turned around without getting wet, and headed back along the Northern side of the Loch. The geography in places is fantastic. Steep sided hills straight down into the loch, plenty of small islets just off shore was very suggestive of some interesting dive sites. Biggest issue we had was trying to find easy shore access and parking space. 1st dive was opposite Ardnamurchan Charters around a jutting headland. Descended down a boulder slope that continued down to at least 30m. The site was quite silty. A number of large linked chains descended over the slope at regular intervals. There was also a large amount of net lying across the boulder slope. Usual loch life although it must be mentioned the featherstars had a remarkable diversity of colours from bright yellow to dark puples. Second dive was at a picnic site called camas torsa. Nice easy stroll in over a shingle beach onto a sandy slope. There is a description of a wall at this site below 25m, but we stayed above this depth. Again the usual loch life, a lovely small thornback ray and a bizarre unidentified worm/mollusc. These worms??? were extremely common at this site, and were the only site we observed them. Up to about 40cm long, clear to white translucent appearance that extends from a hole in the sand. The head of the worm??? then bisects into two halves with a ribbony appearance forming a Y shape. Retracts into the sand upon detection of movement. Not a bad site, and one I would not mind diving again to explore the site further. We then headed around the head of the loch to the south side. Pulling up at Laudale slip we set up the tent for the night, and cooked our evening meal, before heading in for a night dive off the slip way. A nice safe site, and perfect for a night dive. We headed up the loch until we came across a boulder reef and followed it down. Plenty of small fish about, goldsinny, wrasse species, leopard spotted goby, sole. There were also a large number of crabs with cloak anemones, flame shell beds and another unknown. A large turquoise coloured sausage shaped thing, possibly a worm or sea cucumber. Ascended to see the strobe flashing above the camp site. Dekitted and went straight to bed for the night. A bit of rain overnight continued as light drizzle the next morning, but the wind had picked up. Broke camp, and after some breakfast, off to Lochaline for air fills. Tins filled we jumped in and did the lochaline wall. What a great site this is. Gently drifting along the wall. Nudibranch, fan worms, sea squirts of various types, anemones, congers. Great vis, with the wall dropping away below. Ascended and out off the sandy beach. Discussing options we decided to repeat the wall again, when we were approached by a group of other divers from the dive shop. They were doing a training dive, before doing the drift around into the mouth of Lochaline to exit by the pier. With the option of a different dive we took up the offer to join them for the drift. The tide was flowing nicely, not too strong, perfect for a drift. However I have not finned so hard on a dive ever. The dive instructor was off like a shot, finning strongly with the current. Knowing the mouth of the loch is a busy area with the ferry and boat traffic we wanted to stay close. 18mins later we were emerging at the side of the pier. A shallow dive, with not the greatest scenery but something different. On retrospect the finning with the current was probably to ensure we were out before the next ferry returned. Dekitting, we see a charter boat pulling in with the Glasgow contingent of SQSAC who had been out diving on a GLUG trip. Not a bad way to see a weekend out. Keen to get back and explore the area further