Thank goodness my wetsuit stretches; we had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I wore my 5mm wetsuit (superstretch!) and a .5mm hooded vest today thinking the water might be cold. I was too warm in seventy-nine degree water; my 3mm wetsuit and the hooded vest would have been adequate. Our refresher student was in a 3mm suit and very comfortable for our one hour, seventeen minute dive. Vis was pretty decent being in excess of twenty feet. The day was overcast and we saw rain hitting the surface of the water during our dive, but even without bright sun the vis was still quite good. Two large flying gurnards displayed their wings for us. They are the largest ones I have seen at the bridge. Two batfish just to the south of the fishing pier entertained us. A group of four or five horse-eye jacks were hunting out by the channel. The Atlantic spadefish were out by the channel, but not in the large numbers we saw a couple of weeks ago. There are several tiny gray and french angelfish juveniles here and there along with a couple of blue angelfish adults which we don't see often at the bridge. A sharptail eel was poking around for a meal. It felt good to get back in the water even if we did have too much neoprene and a few extra Thanksgiving pounds on. Get in the water, Ham
