6-01 Gulf Dive report

[GulfCoastdiver]

We headed out of fort de Soto about 8am on a friends boat, we went 20 miles or so west, to a place called the rock pile.
We hit the water at about 1030, with a max depth 61' I saw a bunch of little gags and the typical reef fish, alot of rocks and places for them to hide, at the end of the 2nd dive (on the same spot) as I came to the anchor line I spotted about a 5' Goliath grouper tring to hide from me, I got some pictures of him. I didn't shoot my spear gun once, nothing big enough. Vis was ok top to bottom and 30-50 side to side.
We stayed alittle to long and hit the storm on the way in and it really sucked, was pretty scary for a while.

 

[GulfCoastdiver]

I tried to upload some pictures but they got lost in space, will try it again latter...

 

[Oceandvr]

How did the rocks look? Mostly algae or were there sponges and other organisms attached? I haven't been out in the Gulf in a while and am curious to see/hear how it's recovering from red tide last year.

If anyone needs an extra dive buddy - please PM me.

 

[GulfCoastdiver]

How did the rocks look? Mostly algae or were there sponges and other organisms attached? I haven't been out in the Gulf in a while and am curious to see/hear how it's recovering from red tide last year.

If anyone needs an extra dive buddy - please PM me.

There was both alot of algae and some sponges and some other growth on the rocks.


I tried to upload pictures again and it failed again :shakehead

 

[GulfCoastdiver]

The first 8 pictures on this page are from this dive.
http://ourscubapictures.zoomshare.com/1.shtml/Keys Trip

 

[Oceandvr]

The first 8 pictures on this page are from this dive.
http://ourscubapictures.zoomshare.com/1.shtml/Keys Trip

Nice photos! Thanks for sharing. If the picture with the seastar is in the Gulf, then that's a good sign of recovery from red tide.

Where in the Keys were you?

 

[GulfCoastdiver]

Nice photos! Thanks for sharing. If the picture with the seastar is in the Gulf, then that's a good sign of recovery from red tide.

Where in the Keys were you?

We where in key largo.