SuPrBuGmAn
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Alabama Gulf State Pier
Patrick D and I headed to the Gulf State Pier around 9AM on Saturday morning. The Gulf was glassy without a bit of surf, looked clear from the surface too. We parked at the end of whats left of the road in front of the destroyed condos, geared up, and made the short walk to the water. It seemed a bit cooler, maybe its dropped a few degrees in temp? No real threat from jellyfish, I don't remember seeing any that still had tentacles. It seems the remaining jellies have been mostly torn apart by fish...and there were lots of fish! Visibility was around 15-20'. There were actually a ton of mullet, lookdowns, mangroves, bluefish, and scad schooling the wreck. Tropicals flitted around the pylons and stingrays scattered the bottom. It was a great dive that lasted a bit over an hour with a max depth of 13'. When we got back to the truck, a little golf cart with police lights, manned by two State Park ranger types, was waiting on us. They ran my tag and gave us a stern warning about trespassing before running us off - guess I'll have to take the boat out to the pier from now on - won't be nearly as often
Whiskey Wreck
Forty minutes later we were back in the water heading to the Whiskey Wreck. Visibility was 5-15' and jellyfish were, again, not a problem. Lots of mangroves, spades, shad, and pinfish schooled the wreck as pigfish and tropicals darted in and out of any crevice they could find. We saw a couple of flounder and a few southern rays in the sand. There is still seaweed 'pooled' up in the interior of the wreck. I hit a max depth of 17' for a dive lasting nearly an hour and a half. Stopped at hooters before heading home to pack up for a camping trip.
Misc...
Ordered a handheld GPS and bottomfinder for my boat. Hopefully it'll be here by this weekend. I took the Miss Jellyfish for a little camping trip this weekend, motor ran fine, but I damaged one of the threaded transom clamps on the hour and a half ride out to our campsite in a very choppy Perdido Bay. If I can get that fixed and my new toys come in, I may be trying to take the Miss Jellyfish a bit offshore this weekend to dive some of the closer inshore sites
Patrick D and I headed to the Gulf State Pier around 9AM on Saturday morning. The Gulf was glassy without a bit of surf, looked clear from the surface too. We parked at the end of whats left of the road in front of the destroyed condos, geared up, and made the short walk to the water. It seemed a bit cooler, maybe its dropped a few degrees in temp? No real threat from jellyfish, I don't remember seeing any that still had tentacles. It seems the remaining jellies have been mostly torn apart by fish...and there were lots of fish! Visibility was around 15-20'. There were actually a ton of mullet, lookdowns, mangroves, bluefish, and scad schooling the wreck. Tropicals flitted around the pylons and stingrays scattered the bottom. It was a great dive that lasted a bit over an hour with a max depth of 13'. When we got back to the truck, a little golf cart with police lights, manned by two State Park ranger types, was waiting on us. They ran my tag and gave us a stern warning about trespassing before running us off - guess I'll have to take the boat out to the pier from now on - won't be nearly as often
Whiskey Wreck
Forty minutes later we were back in the water heading to the Whiskey Wreck. Visibility was 5-15' and jellyfish were, again, not a problem. Lots of mangroves, spades, shad, and pinfish schooled the wreck as pigfish and tropicals darted in and out of any crevice they could find. We saw a couple of flounder and a few southern rays in the sand. There is still seaweed 'pooled' up in the interior of the wreck. I hit a max depth of 17' for a dive lasting nearly an hour and a half. Stopped at hooters before heading home to pack up for a camping trip.
Misc...
Ordered a handheld GPS and bottomfinder for my boat. Hopefully it'll be here by this weekend. I took the Miss Jellyfish for a little camping trip this weekend, motor ran fine, but I damaged one of the threaded transom clamps on the hour and a half ride out to our campsite in a very choppy Perdido Bay. If I can get that fixed and my new toys come in, I may be trying to take the Miss Jellyfish a bit offshore this weekend to dive some of the closer inshore sites
