Dive/Picnic Report 22 November

It didn't feel like late fall; we had a breezy, partly sunny day in the mid-seventies. The vis was about twenty feet and the water temperature was eighty-one, very nice for our one hour, ten minute dive. Actually, my dive buddy, Leyla, kept on going with her camera after I called it quits. She won the award for having come the longest distance to the dive/picnic, from Switzerland. (She is home to share Thanksgiving with her family and took advantage of the dive opportunity.) We saw a polkadot batfish, a gorgeous little butter hamlet, a neck crab for which I looked very hard with my magnifying glass, a very cooperative, displaying intermediate flying gurnard, a sharptail eel, many Atlantic spadefish, juvenile highhats, yellow stingrays, juvenile blue angelfish, juvenile french and gray angelfish, and many other critters. Other divers from the Jupiter Drift Divers club saw several spotted eagle rays. Many thanks to Veronica and Stan for setting up and cooking. Their deeply appreciated efforts make the Jupiter Drift Divers a very active and successful club. It was an absolutely pleasant late-fall afternoon with friends in south Florida! Get in the water, Ham