The continuing sagas of the Blue Heron Bridge

[Sully3]

so whats the news from the meeting

 

[djtimmy77]

We were bad and did the night dive at the bridge instead of going to the meeting. It was a lot of fun, saw the nudis and flatworms that we have only seen out at night thus far. Sleeping parrotfish, octopus, spotted morays, plenty of the other usual suspects out and about.

 

[joystershell]

so whats the news from the meeting

Please see this thread.



http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/florida-conch-divers/299184-blue-heron-construction-any-news.html

 

[sportxlh]

this a bit of a test since I have never posted a picture before: I attempting to post a picture of a lobster I photographed a blue heron bridge last month

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

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[DennisW]

Planning on being at BHB tomorrow morning. Donna and I will be in the silver 2003 4Runner with VA tags, FL dive sticker on the back hatch window.

 

[KBeck]

Hi Dennis, look forward to see you guys!!

So, I have a sighting mystery to be solved. I don't have a camera, so no pic to help identify.

We were under the east bridge span, inspecting the wall to the far left (west). Saw an eel/snaklike animal hunting aggressively.
Characteristics:
--Uniform yellow in color
--appeared perfectly round--did not have an obvious dorsal fin.
--only about the size of a pencil in circumference
--About 1 1/2 feet long

As I said, it was hunting, it the open, very aggressive--fast, darting movement in and out of the growth.
If I were didn't know better, I'd say it looked darn similar to a yellow garden eel, if they ever came all the way out into the open. Is there any remote possibility they will do that?

It happened that there was a sharptail eel also hunting right by it, so we were able to compare them in length--they were roughly the same length.

When we were discussing it afterward, another diver suggested it was a juvenile sharptail. I suppose that's possible; nothing I can find via research offers photos of eel juveniles. However, as I said above, when in direct comparison with a neighboring sharptail, and they were close in length, which would suggest to me that this one couldn't be a juvenile version of it.

I'm dying to figure it out!

Otherwise, we also saw many of the usual suspects--sea robins; bat fish, and my first ever frogfish (striated). Thanks to the kind diver duo that pointed it out to us and allowing us to share the view! He even put out his "lure" for a while...pretty neat!

We didn't see any seahorses or octopus. Strangely, I also saw very few starfish......they're usually everywhere, but not today.

Heading back tomorrow; this time Jim will be there with the trusty camera, and I'm sure he'll have plenty of pics to share!

 

[Sully3]

hey KBeck

it might have been a key worm eel.
here is one we found in St. Vincent
they can be from pinkish, to yellow, to orange.
maybe this is it?

 

[KBeck]

Wow Sully! I'm impressed; it certainly looks like it to me; thanks! How did you identify it?

Edit: Ran a google search for that term, and found this: Key Worm Eel. Handy!

 

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