Dive Report 9 July


After a few weeks away from the bridge it was "back in the saddle" for a beautiful dive. The water was a little green as we have had some fresh water added EVERY afternoon for several weeks, but the vis was still generally about ten to fifteen feet. The water temperature was eighty-two which made for a very comfortable one hour, twenty-five minute dive in 3mm wetsuits. We were a group of seven certified divers, some of whom were getting back in the water after a long dry spell (ten years in one case!). What a great place to get "back in the saddle". We saw a batfish, the tiniest blue or queen angelfish I have ever seen (it was too small to tell), a sharptail eel almost completely in its hole with only its head sticking out (I've never seen that before), and somewhere between twelve to fifteen lobsters lined up in a row all facing out in shoulder-to-shoulder formation under the fishing pier (you should have seen that, Michele!). Scorpionfish were all over the bottom. And, of course, on a Thursday, practically nobody was there. Nice! Get in the water, Ham