SeaYoda
Contributor
The sun was bright and no clouds in the sky today - good news for us waterlogged panhandlers. The water at the jetties did not seem its usual bright blue today but still not that yucky brown that it has been. I'm down to just my 3 mm full suit with no beanie or booties - WOO-HOO ! The wind was pretty bad and the surface was a little choppy. The viz was not all that great today maybe 10'-15' with a lot of silt. The temp was 68 degrees at 30'. I stayed on the north side of the finger jetty again and there was no current today. I spotted the stripes of a sheepshead in the distance and he eventually came close enough for a crummy picture. There were tons of large blue-crabs around and under the rocks. While I was taking a picture of one under a rock, things started to get dark around me. I got spooked and jerked my head up to find I was being circled by a school of amber-jack. Man are those fish spooky coming out of the gloom like that with no noise and ugly faces. I regained my composure enough to remember I had a camera, of course it was in super-macro mode and they were gone before I could even point the camera at them. I continued the dive and the school came back again when I was trying to take some more close-ups. Every time I would wait for the school to return, with my camera set right, I would wait and they would not come. I think I'm going to invent a new shark repellent with this experience in mind - I'll put a false head and false camera on the bottom of my tank and no fish or shark will ever show up 
. Just as I was ending the dive guess who showed up again? This time they circled long enough for me to get another 2 crummy pictures. The dive was pretty fun, all things considered. Here are some pics:
. Just as I was ending the dive guess who showed up again? This time they circled long enough for me to get another 2 crummy pictures. The dive was pretty fun, all things considered. Here are some pics:
