Blue Heron Bridge Trolls

[djtimmy77]

I remember hearing about that incident. I guess I just feel I have a better chance in an idle zone rather than on a beach dive where people are running WOT. In that case, I think the far west side is an idle zone so divers might have a fighting chance!

 

[jet126]

I met ScubagirlJ for a dawn dive this morning. The good news: we had the place to ourselves; I think there was one other diver in the water. The bad news: viz is really down with lots of particulate in the water. I'm guessing from the sudden downpours after this long drought?

For those of you who know what I'm talking about: I searched for the third straight dive for the Puff pair. Really combed the area again for at least 45 minutes. Alas. Nowhere to be seen. Luckily for me, Scubagirl was testing a new strobe and didn't seem to mind us not moving around much.

I'm making a little "First Half TwentyEleven" highlights video with the Flip Tall Guy gave me for Christmas. So I didn't take too many photos today. I'll try to get it posted before I head out of town. Today was my last northern hemisphere dive for a while. I'm headed to Ecuador next week. Adios Amigos!

Here's from today

You can see all the particles in the water:



Creepiest stonefish(?) ever:

 

[jbop65]

Hello everyone,I missed the golden chance to dive with everyone a few weeks ago when everyone brought food and had a great time.Well Saturday early morning we are heading to West Palm for 2 days and I would like to take a crack at the Blue Heron Bridge for the first time.

Does anyone plan on diving the Bridge this weekend either Saturday July 2nd or Sunday July 3rd
I' looking for someone that Knows the dive well Also should be mentioned I just got a Underwater camera and strobe and would like to try it out.
Feel free to contact me at blueeyejon37@yahoo.com if you need a dive buddy.
Thanks have a great day
John

 

[Onewolf]

High tide on Saturday is listed as 9:27AM so if you get there before 9AM you should be able to get a decent parking spot. Holiday weekend and all, you know.

 

[blackvans1234]

For any of you trolls willing to, feel free!

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/florida-conch-divers/387703-list-prospective-dive-buddies.html

 

[divebob8]

I am putting a plan together to dive the west, west side of BHB from shore... Who wants in?

My $.02 for what is worth. I met a diver from Wellington a couple of months back who has dived the west side. Not near as good as the east side was his comment to me. Not as many critters and growth on the pilings was less prolific than the east.
He also said the area is very scoured. I'm assuming it's because of the way the tides flow unimpeded. This is not my opinion. Just a report.
I did check out the parking a while back and it is adequate but entering and exiting the water seems tricky.

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

My $.02 for what is worth. I met a diver from Wellington a couple of months back who has dived the west side. Not near as good as the east side was his comment to me. Not as many critters and growth on the pilings was less prolific than the east.
He also said the area is very scoured. I'm assuming it's because of the way the tides flow unimpeded. This is not my opinion. Just a report.
I did check out the parking a while back and it is adequate but entering and exiting the water seems tricky.

Before the east span was closed for construction, some of us believed the west side was very scoured compared to what we were finding on the east side. Sometimes it's how you look for things rather than where you look for them Now that I have been diving the west span, I am more likely to continue diving it once the east span is reopened.

I'm ready to give the old Missouri try before I condemn it.

 

[mntlblok]

Before the east span was closed for construction, some of us believed the west side was very scoured compared to what we were finding on the east side. Sometimes it's how you look for things rather than where you look for them Now that I have been diving the west span, I am more likely to continue diving it once the east span is reopened.

I'm ready to give the old Missouri try before I condemn it.

Will be hopping in the car in a couple of hours with plans to dive the bridge Fri-?. Can a minivan climb the curb to park on the west side? Any plans, yet, for the Missouri thing? I'm getting better at "looking".

Kevin

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Will be hopping in the car in a couple of hours with plans to dive the bridge Fri-?. Can a minivan climb the curb to park on the west side? Any plans, yet, for the Missouri thing? I'm getting better at "looking".

Kevin

Didn't get time to do it this week. We leave for NC on Saturday and won't be back until the following Sunday. I have root canal on the 11th and an appt. for the knee surgeon to look at my MRI on the 12th.

Now, I put two tanks in for hydro today and one tank in for VIP. The hydros will be done when I get back and the VIP will be filled for our Venice dive on the 9th

 

[mntlblok]

Drove under the west side of the bridge for a look after this morning's dive. Getting *to* the water looks doable, but I'd have to have great expectations of something really cool to see in order to risk busting my ass (and camera gear) as I stumbled over the rocks *in* the water.

Identified a bad/weak camera battery on this dive. :depressed: Grrrrr. Was only able to get a few pics of the garden eels that I'd never run across previously at the bridge. These guys are *way* bigger and much more colorful than any I'd seen previously. The viz wasn't tremendous this morning and the dern sun wasn't out. My camera and my old eyes definitely prefer sun.

After the eels, I found my "Ent" decorator crab, again, though it took me a *long* time to identify him - and he was only about six inches away from where I'd spotted him the previous two times - and the dern thing is four inches tall. He still blows my mind. YouTube - ‪We're Not Worthy or The Ent.avi‬‏

The camera battery completed died about there, so I got no shots of the next two things I'd never seen before. There was a *huge* Helmet Conch. It was about the size of a football helmet. With the smaller shells attached, I actually thought it might be one of those hidden cameras operated remotely like you see on TV around lions or polar bears. Even when I got up close to it, it didn't look like anything "real". Hope to get to see it again, tomorrow. How far can a snail go in 24 hours?? It looked a lot like this one: Helmet Conch - how it walkson the bottom | Flickr - Photo Sharing! , but you could see its pretty, yellow "foot" circumferentially, along with its two little "eye stalks" (I assume, as it had no "eyeballs" on the ends of them).

Also didn't get any pics of my second box crab ever - and this guy was big, too - like six inches across. Guess it was a Flame Box Crab. Really cool looking, and was in the same general area where I'd seen my first box crab - a much smaller one - recently.

Diving's a *whole* lot more fun (to me) with a functional camera. . .

Kevin

Didn't get time to do it this week. We leave for NC on Saturday and won't be back until the following Sunday. I have root canal on the 11th and an appt. for the knee surgeon to look at my MRI on the 12th.

Now, I put two tanks in for hydro today and one tank in for VIP. The hydros will be done when I get back and the VIP will be filled for our Venice dive on the 9th