Blue Heron Bridge Trolls

[jimw]

Couple reports from today I've seen on facebook:

Yep, I saw those comments on Blue Heron Bridge Dive Club, looking for someone who actually went today. Wife going tomorrow, so we will have a report then!

---------- Post added October 13th, 2015 at 04:16 PM ----------

5 ft viz this morning at BHB, 82 degrees--at least it's NOT worse!

 

[Lorenzoid]

Since we only get down to S FL once or twice a year and were looking forward to squeezing in a visit to BHB, we braved it on Tuesday Oct. 13. Consensus seemed to be that vis was still 5-7 feet. For us infrequent visitors, it was still a good dive. No regrets.

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Yep, I saw those comments on Blue Heron Bridge Dive Club, looking for someone who actually went today. Wife going tomorrow, so we will have a report then!

---------- Post added October 13th, 2015 at 04:16 PM ----------

5 ft viz this morning at BHB, 82 degrees--at least it's NOT worse!

Since we only get down to S FL once or twice a year and were looking forward to squeezing in a visit to BHB, we braved it on Tuesday Oct. 13. Consensus seemed to be that vis was still 5-7 feet. For us infrequent visitors, it was still a good dive. No regrets.

I cannot comment on BHB, but the water near shore in Juno Beach and Jupiter looked toward the brown, which I am not used to seeing...

We will likely stay out of the water this weekend... Which means, it will be a perfect dive weekend based on my skills as a prognosticator

 

[danvolker]

Sandra heard BHB is back to 15 to 20 today..so she will be diving there tomorrow

---------- Post added October 15th, 2015 at 01:39 PM ----------

Sandra was at BHB west side from 9:30am to 1pm today...water temp was 84 degree --she wore 5 mil wetsuit, and was comfortable....the viz was 25 feet but with lots of particulate...but fine for macro.
She had a great time

 

[jimw]

We went yesterday and had good viz on the east side of 15-20 ft and milky. Saw a nice eagle ray and lots more critters. MikeG had his first 2 hour dive at the bridge on his 40thsomething dive. He will be up to 3 hours soon!

3 of us had 82-83 degrees water temp...........

 

[jimw]

2 pics from my last dive at BHB 2 days ago--what's the white urchin lookin' character? At first I asssumed it was somethin' dead--not so--spines were moving! It was nice for setting white balance anyway. Viz was improved that day and yesterday too I heard, but the bottom and everything else was covered in a blanket of what was going thru the last 2-3 weeks! I realized after a while that I wasn't seeing "any" feather algae.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Interesting. Looks like some spines are nearby. Maybe "mostly dead?"
I think the last time I was up there (gosh, it's been a while!) There seemed to be different species of urchin on the east side, and there were a lot. Now I need to dig through photos...

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

View attachment 2181342 pics from my last dive at BHB 2 days ago--what's the white urchin lookin' character? At first I asssumed it was somethin' dead--not so--spines were moving! It was nice for setting white balance anyway. Viz was improved that day and yesterday too I heard, but the bottom and everything else was covered in a blanket of what was going thru the last 2-3 weeks! I realized after a while that I wasn't seeing "any" feather algae.

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[Biminitwist]

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[seeker242]

Vis was about 10' today. Not really that bad. Saw a spotted eagle ray.

AND, I got a freaking parking ticket for parking in the "boar trailer" spot...And so did about 15 other people...That first sign is completely misleading! "normal parking to left, boat trailers to right". Go to left and get ticket...SOB!