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... And just now the DOH has added in a more recent water test from March 27th. Bacterial counts are back in the green zone. Yay. https://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/beach-water-quality/beach-detail.html I'm now wondering if it'll take two days for yesterday's report to get...

The DOH has just this morning released a water quality health advisory for Phil Foster Park. But when I go to the DOH website, it shows that the bacterial testing was performed on March 25th (3 days ago). I am unclear as to how I'm supposed to interpret the delayed reporting of the test results...

Hi, I was out doing work today and photographed this injured jack. I thought it was an almaco jack, but it may be a lesser amberjack. The fish is about a foot long, swimming in shallow nearshore hard bottom in SE Florida.

Sounds great to me. I'll tag that sucker down as a saucy orange-spotted goby. Thank you for your help!

Thanks! The filefish is about 4 inches from snout to peduncle, which I did not find terribly helpful. For the goby thing, would you be able to tell me what features you're using to ID it? It's in the right size range for an orange spotted goby, but this fish had zero orange on it anywhere...

I'm having trouble identifying some fishes from Blue Heron Bridge. 1. Beats me. Female green razorfish maybe is the closest I can figure. 2. I would have defaulted to a shortnose batfish, but the yellow fringed pectorals are indicated for the polka dot batfish. Does the shortnose batfish ever...

I have always enjoyed reading Bill's nature posts. And his many writings on scuba equipment (especially XTek stuff) were really useful. I don't know anyone who managed to get as much lifetime use out of personal gear.

Buying the BCD was probably entirely superfluous. And that one item probably took up roughly half of your total cost right there.

It depends on what you mean by "shrimp". Freshwater mysid shrimps are common in many North American ponds, lakes, and streams. Most of the freshwater species are fairly small however and I doubt most divers would notice them. They tend to have very transparent bodies. There are also caridean...

I use BUFF's for all of my snorkeling and nearly all of my diving. They are easily configured as a hood. They'll handle your head just fine, and most all of your neck also. Sometimes I'll wear (2) BUFF's if I'm going to be snorkeling for a long time. I pull one of the BUFF's over as a full...

I'm starting to wonder if the housing market is pricing itself into another artificial bubble that will soon pop. Most all of the listed homes around me are running at least 25% higher than they were compared to just last year. One of my neighbors is moving, and she just listed her home for...

Oh yes, "HOA" fees down in south Florida can be ridiculous. Eventually you come to realize that "HOA" in many cases is actually just the neighborhood developer's code for "secret rent", that there is no actual homeowners association per se, and that most of your fees are siphoned off as somebody...

Ana is correct about scouting the area. Most of my colleagues and friends who moved down there and purchased a house immediately, ended up very much regretting it. I recommend renting an apartment or house for a year, and spending that time exploring the area, the housing market, the people...

An engagement ring. I was so afraid of losing it, that the ring was tied to a string, which itself was tied off to a little baggie that the ring was inside, which the baggie in turn was stuffed into the top of my beanie hood. It took a couple minutes just to unravel all that mess to pop the...

I found this thing left out by the curb for the trash people to haul away. It kind of looks like a little tank rack, but I've never seen a tank rack that was so... nice looking before. It looks more like something that you put by your front door or fireplace, to like, hold umbrellas or log...

That is definitely not a Cassiopeia. I handle those things all the time. Cassiopeia does not get anywhere near that large, and the external morphology is very different. I don't think it is a Chrysaora either. While I don't interact with those so much, they have a simpler "undercarriage" and a...

I've tried numerous compass types (slate, wrist, hose, console), but I keep going back to an analog one built into the spg console. I often have other junk strapped to my arm(s) that precludes a wrist compass, and I've adapted to just having one of the longer, 3-module spg consoless. For a while...

How much lighter is this thing?

I don't even know what a pee valve is. It's not for... peeing is it?

If the waves are relatively flat, you might try snorkeling The Breakers. I haven't been there myself, but I've been told by a lot of locals that it's pretty popular. And there's also Peanut Island. You need to take the ferry over or rent a kayak from the Riviera Beach marina, but it has nice...