Blue Heron Bridge Trolls

[Scuba_Jenny]

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[jet126]

So, you never get reprimanded out yonder??

Kevin

After the J's dive last week I'm not convinced there even IS a sponge garden. I think it's a myth. Something Jim made up to just tease us. We all know what a kidder he is .... (He "couldn't find it" when Jenny and I were with him).

I, unlike Jet, never do the naughty.....

"We all know what a kidder he is ...."

They're not fighting??

(them crabs what needs to get a room)

Those crabs were definitely "not fighting." I was a little embarrassed. Like a nitwit kid accidently stumbling in upon mom and dad.

 

[jet126]

Kelly and I are planning on going Sat and Sun from the park.
Hope to see some cool new critters now the water is getting colder.
Was told there were a colony of sailfin blennys but it is still eluding me, any better directions?
John

Hi John -
I've been a little preoccupied the past few days. No time right now but I will pm you later today. Unfortunately we bridge trolls have learned the hard way to not post locations ... there are a lot of lurkers on this thread. Collectors and other less-than-cool interested parties that end up using the info for their own nefarious activities.

Haven't been over there recently but I know where the colonies were last summer - sounds like the same general area.
jet

 

[jar546]

Hi John -
I've been a little preoccupied the past few days. No time right now but I will pm you later today. Unfortunately we bridge trolls have learned the hard way to not post locations ... there are a lot of lurkers on this thread. Collectors and other less-than-cool interested parties that end up using the info for their own nefarious activities. ...............

I was thinking the same thing but I was going to say opprobrious activities.

OK, I really just learned 2 new words

 

[Biminitwist]

Hi John -
I've been a little preoccupied the past few days. No time right now but I will pm you later today. Unfortunately we bridge trolls have learned the hard way to not post locations ... there are a lot of lurkers on this thread. Collectors and other less-than-cool interested parties that end up using the info for their own nefarious activities. Haven't been over there recently but I know where the colonies were last summer - sounds like the same general area.
jet

Thanks Jet, I was aware of the location-mystery abduction issue having read thru 111 pages of these posts.
I just thought it was sufficiently vague especially being as I have much more explicit directions and haven't come close to finding it in a dozen plus dives. Was hoping to get a pm that might dial in my quest.
No biggie. I have found a ton of other cool stuff in the process.
Not the sponge garden......
Tomorrow we may spend some time out front then work over to the east side, we tend to find more on the west but then it's not as overgrown and gloomy.
Hope to see you out there.
John

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Sponge garden doesn't exist. At least in the formal sense. It's all in this crusty-looking-hardcore-dude's mind

 

[danvolker]

Sandra, Ximena and Ari have been finding so many new species of Nudibranchs at the Blue Heron Bridge Marine Park, that Anne Dupont and the scientists she works with may soon have to do a paper on BHB..This could be like a new "Voyage for the Beagle" and a big new interest in the "Transmutation of Species".... Darwin references aside, there are so many new species being discovered, that a demand for some answers is brewing We will be adding shots of several of these in the next issue of www.SFDJ.com

 

[scubajim 1]

Sponge garden doesn't exist. At least in the formal sense. It's all in this crusty-looking-hardcore-dude's mind

You are right...I lied and the images are all photo-shopped...I've been found out. Everyone can stop looking.

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

The Sponge garden is actually in the boat channel and is not recommended for anyone who isn't a regular diver at BHB. It is a very presumptuous dive and one must know how to "suck the ground" when making this dive... Boats regularly pass over the top of this area, and they could "give a chit less" about divers in the area

 

[NewbaScuba]

Looks like the off-season rates kick in after May 1. Anyone ever stay at the Singer Island Resort? On the map it looks perfectly situated for a long weekend visit to BHB.

I 've never stayed there, but my wife and I were pleasantly surprised by the Travelodge up the road...
Travelodge Riviera Beach/West Palm‎

[TD="class: basicinfo"]3651 West Blue Heron Boulevard
Riviera Beach, FL 33404

(561) 844-2601

[/TD]

We stayed in a ground floor handicap accessible room for a night last year on our way through the area. I think it cost around $50.
nice big room, clean, large enough shower to hang two sets of dripping gear.

It was a pleasant upgrade compared to the dank, cramped quarters we had stayed in at the The Pelican in Key Largo for a few nights of diving.