Anchor Point, Loch Fyne

Also known as: Creagan Dubh

Excellent site
Variety of habitats
Limited parking

Anchor Point Information

This dive site is in an attractive location about halfway down the east shore of Loch Fyne, and requires driving with care along a single-track road with passing-places.

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Directions

Take the A82 along Loch Lomond to Tarbet, then continue along this road as it becomes the A83. Follow the A83 for 12.6 miles, passing through Arrochar and round the head of Loch Long then down the west shore, passing the Twin Piers and Conger Alley dive sites, before turning inland at Ardgartan campsite. Keep following the A83 until you come to the junction with the A815, where you will turn left. After about 5 miles on the A815 you will pass through St Catherines, and shortly afterwards you’ll pass by the St Catherines dive site but continue along this until you reach Strachur. Turn right at the junction with the A886. Follow the A886 for 3 miles, then turn right onto the B8000. Follow the B8000 for 7.3 miles until you come to the small Anchor Point parking area. Park carefully to take-up as little space as you can, to allow other cars to be shoe-horned in beside you.

Dive Site Details

Unlike the boulder slopes of some other shore dive sites, with Anchor Point you are treated to diving on a big rocky promontory of a similar character to the one that is on your right on the shore. Its contours naturally provide a variety of different habitats for the marine life that congregates here. With good visibility it can look spectacular, and is rewarding if you take the time to explore its features. Your experience will be different with every dive – even on the same day.

A typical dive pattern is to head out from the shore in a westerly direction to make early visual contact with the reef. Then follow the line of the reef and the seabed to your chosen depth and meander across the reef from there.

Depending upon the tide, maximum depth is around 30m.

An alternative to the main reef, perhaps for a second dive, is to head for the adjacent reef towards the right, about a leisurely five minute fin away. From the shore, once you’re beyond the land-based promontory, head up the loch in a roughly northerly direction (say 330 to 0°). Initially, you’ll head over the shallower top of the first reef, then drop to around 15m and continue in the same direction until you make contact with the second reef.