Dive Reports 1 and 3 October


Despite the ten to fifteen feet of vis, we are seeing incredible critters at the big bridge! Wednesday we saw a gorgeous juvenile spotted eagle ray. In short vis you know it was up close and personal. Magnificent. We saw a big octopus that has taken up residence at the second set of pilings in an old piece of pipe. Big one! Today, Friday, was a five-wow day! We saw two stargazers!! Unbelievable! One was at the newest sailboat wreck just to the west of the moored blue sailboat. The other was in between the two sailboats just off the beach right next to a fifteen-inch gulf flounder (Carrie thinks it was a spotfin). I've never seen a gulf flounder (or spotfin flounder) at the bridge. Also on the new wreck was a juvenile bluespotted cornetfish, only about six inches long. On the little sunken open boat just southeast of the second sunken sailboat off the beach, a big spotted moray has become a resident. So divers, even when the vis isn't made-to-order, Mother Nature presents quite a show if we are willing to look. Today's dive was absolutely spectacular, in ten feet of vis! Water temperature was eighty-two. Get in the water, Ham