Hi
If anybody is interested My Local Dive Center has a number of places it needs to fill for a Northern Red Sea Safari, in August.
The live aboard is with Blue 02 aboard Blue Horizon, one of their newer boats. All cabins are en-suite, A/C etc.
If you are intersted the cost is £950 pp and includes flights from Gatwick.
The package includes: London Gatwick flights Egyptian entry visa and internal transfers from/to airport,
7 nights full board onboard vessel, marine park fees, all soft drinks, tea & coffee, single 12ltr (DIN/INT) cylinder and lead weights.
NITROX AVAILIABLE but is chargeable
If you are interested please email scott.roberts AT virgin.net (just change the AT for the @ )

agenda-020707.pdf

Dear All

Please find attached the Agenda for next months meeting.

Chris

GLUG Minutes 050607

Dear All

Please find attached short and sweet minutes to the last meeting.

Happy reading and see you on the 3rd July 07

Chris

With only 8 votes for the winning location so far, it’s going to be a small picnic!   Come on - I know there are more than 18 members in and around London - lets have your votes!  Voting will close on Monday 2nd July, so that we have a decision for July’s club meeting, so if you haven’t voted yet, please do so.

Neil.

Charlie Stewart has been kind enough to write-up a report from his most recent trip to the Red Sea. Covering the Brothers, Daedalus and Elphinstone, with threshers, hammerheads and cross-dressing Germans thrown in for good measure, it’s enough to make any diver green with envy. You can read it for yourself here.

And, now that diving season has begun in earnest, if anyone else feels similarly inspired to contribute pictures or trip reports then please email them to me so I can add them to the site. Your fifteen minutes of fame starts now…

I’ve now got two spaces available for Pembrokeshire, 6-8 July (the Friday is optional). Could take 1 experienced + 1 not so experienced, but not 2 inexperienced. Accommodation available. It’s a great venue and everyone usually enjoys themselves immensely. Please contact me for details.

I still have one place on the Pembrokeshire trip. The Friday is optional. I need one more experienced diver to help out. Please contact me if you can make it.

GLUG will be holding an end-of-summer Picnic on Sunday 2nd September somewhere in London. All are welcome, but first we need to decide where to have it!

I’ve set up a Poll on the website (in the top right corner), so if you’re planning on coming along, then please vote for your preference(s). You can vote for up to 3 venues, but you can only vote once!

More information on the venues can be found by clicking on their names.

UPDATE: I realised that I’d forgotten to restrict the voting to GLUG members only. I’ve deleted all the non-member votes, so if you voted without logging into the website, please could you go back and vote again.

At the time of writing, only Myself, Anna, Jason, and Alesh had voted.

At the risk of pre-empting Kirk’s forthcoming post, I’ve set up two events on the Events Page for London Pride and Brighton Pride.

Kirk will no doubt be looking for volunteers to help out on the GLUG stand, so if you can spare a couple of hours on either date, please click on the appropriate tick to register your interest. (You need to be logged in first!)

At the last GLUG meeting, I agreed to put a poll on the website, to find out where members would prefer to have the GLUG end-of-summer Picnic on September 2nd.

Before I do so, I thought I’d ask whether anyone would like to put forward any locations in addition to those listed below:

1. Greenwich park
2. St James Park
3. Green Park
4. Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens
5. Regent’s Park
6. Battersea Park
7. Clapham Common
8. Bushey Park

If you’ve any further suggestions, please leave a comment below this post, before Friday 15th June.

http://www.glug.co.uk/archives/739

At the end of June I have to hand back the remaining 5 places, on this trip, to Scubascuba as I haven’t filled them. They have 4 people who will gladly travel and dive with the 13 other lovely GLUGies booked on board but, in a last ditch effort to fill the boat with GLUG members, check out the link and get back to me should you have any questions. I know there was at least one person at Tuesday night’s social who was interested but I unfortunately I did not get a chance to talk to them and would kindly ask that they get in touch with me or if someone knows this person please prompt him. Many thanks in anticipation.

I also may be planning an Autumn Red Sea Trip-watch this space

Best wishes

Charlie

Well, my attempt to upgrade the website was a complete disaster! Apologies that it was offline for so long.

Not quite sure what went wrong/why it didn’t work, but it was lucky I took a backup before I started!

I will be trying again in a few days time.

Neil.

Wordpress have released a new version of the software which runs our website.

I’ll be upgrading our website sometime within the next few days, as time allows. During this time, there may be periods when the website is offline, and you’ll just see a message asking you to come back later.

Apologies for the inconvenience, but the new release has some security fixes, plus some extra features, so it’s a good idea to upgrade.

Neil.

Ocean Optics / Mavericks Diving are organising an Evening with Martin Edge, a well-respected Underwater Photographer.

Here’s their mailshot:

Would anyone interested in diving Jersey for one or two days at the end of the month (or in future trips)? Possible dive charter (ten divers maximum) of hard boat taking in some of the islands finest wreck and reef sites. Good apres dive dinner in local restaurant in the evening with pub venues beforehand! Anyone interested post a return message for further details (flights/pickups/costings etc).