It was very nice to be back at the bridge on such a gorgeous day after having been out of the water for two weeks. What a day to come back! Parking was easy! The air temperature was about seventy-two at eight this morning as an open water student and I geared up. The vis was an exceptional sixty feet as we could see one set of pilings from another; they are one hundred feet apart. The water temperature was a very comfortable eighty-one as my student and I were wearing three milimeter wetsuits. There were more Atlantic spadefish intermediates there than I have ever seen before; there had to be close to a hundred in two or three separate schools out by the channel. We could see well out into the channel. The little blue angelfish juvenile in the "canyon" out by the channel has grown significantly. Yellow stingrays were in many places. Lobsters were in the rubble under the fishing pier. We watched a sharptail eel hunt for breakfast. The highpoint of the dive for me was a beautiful spotted eagle ray cruising between the seawall and the first set of pilings. They are so incredible to watch and with the vis today we got to see it for quite some time. The Jupiter Drift Divers are having a picnic at the bridge on Sunday, November 22 after a dive on the 11:44 high tide. We'll be there about ten o'clock or so. I'm thinking about having bagels and coffee at the bridge before the dive and then picnic after the dive. Why not? (It was so good to be back in the water.) Get in the water, Ham
