SmokeAire
Contributor
First I want to thank Scuba Jenny for her warm hospitality and excellent under water navigation that got us back where we started in the dark.
Marvel, well your name is an understatement. I enjoyed your company.
FLL Diver, it was good meeting you and your daughter and Valentina as well.
And I would like to thank all my producers....oh....wrong venue.
Friday's night dive was worth the drive down. The reef is very nice and the swim out to it is kin to the swim out at Venice. I would like to dive it during the day. Some highlights: lots of small squid, swimming undulating flat critters and attack worms, 'cuda, flowering soft cup corals, feeding anemones and the high point of the dive....a octopus, found by Jenny. It was my first. It was about 6" across from tenticle tip to tip and didn't seem overly concerned about us. It crawled along the top of the rocks, jetted to another rock top, flattened and then expanded itself turning a dark-ish color to frighten us off. Jenny offered a gloved finger of peace which octo accepted by extending a tiny tentacle onto said finger. Jenny then took off the glove,extended the now naked finger and octo extended tiny tentacle again caressing Jenny's finger with all the sucking power of a shop-vac. Jenny reacted,with all due respect, like she just touched a cattle prod. I thought she was in pain and decided finger of peace or not I'll keep mine to myself. Well it turned out it was not out of pain but of surprise by how much those itsy-bitsy sucker cups suck! Next time we will be prepared.
Sat. morning dive was attended by GrierHPharmd,Trish the Fish, Scuba Jenny, several others, whose names have slipped my aging mind, and myself.
Again a nice reef of lower profile but interesting critters. The highlight on this one was my first Scorpion fish found by Grier.
Now I need to find a reason to be down there more often, a girl friend, a job, because this is the place for shore diving in FL. Look out Bonaire. And the people make it worth it.
Thanks gals/guys.
Oh Simon, I didn't sleep on the couch.
Chuck
Marvel, well your name is an understatement. I enjoyed your company.
FLL Diver, it was good meeting you and your daughter and Valentina as well.
And I would like to thank all my producers....oh....wrong venue.
Friday's night dive was worth the drive down. The reef is very nice and the swim out to it is kin to the swim out at Venice. I would like to dive it during the day. Some highlights: lots of small squid, swimming undulating flat critters and attack worms, 'cuda, flowering soft cup corals, feeding anemones and the high point of the dive....a octopus, found by Jenny. It was my first. It was about 6" across from tenticle tip to tip and didn't seem overly concerned about us. It crawled along the top of the rocks, jetted to another rock top, flattened and then expanded itself turning a dark-ish color to frighten us off. Jenny offered a gloved finger of peace which octo accepted by extending a tiny tentacle onto said finger. Jenny then took off the glove,extended the now naked finger and octo extended tiny tentacle again caressing Jenny's finger with all the sucking power of a shop-vac. Jenny reacted,with all due respect, like she just touched a cattle prod. I thought she was in pain and decided finger of peace or not I'll keep mine to myself. Well it turned out it was not out of pain but of surprise by how much those itsy-bitsy sucker cups suck! Next time we will be prepared.
Sat. morning dive was attended by GrierHPharmd,Trish the Fish, Scuba Jenny, several others, whose names have slipped my aging mind, and myself.
Again a nice reef of lower profile but interesting critters. The highlight on this one was my first Scorpion fish found by Grier.
Now I need to find a reason to be down there more often, a girl friend, a job, because this is the place for shore diving in FL. Look out Bonaire. And the people make it worth it.
Thanks gals/guys.
Oh Simon, I didn't sleep on the couch.
Chuck
