SeaYoda
Contributor
After working on my flooded strobe for an hour and a half (just got the power light on but no flash yet), I headed to the jetties to meet kchFLA. The sky and water were a beautiful shade of blue. Photohikedive and buddy had sinus conditions so they could not make the dive. They did come by to take some surface pictures at the end of our first dive. Just before we did the first dive I heard someone call my name - it was NUTTZ. He was teaching a class so he didn't get to play today. The viz was down a little from yesterday - I'd give it 30' with the same haze that has been there over the last few dives. The June grass has increased in amount and it is floating a little more too. The temperature is still 75 degrees. On the first dive we made it out to the anchor seeing the ever increasing number of crabs. There were quite a few searobins out today along with the usual fish population. We turned the dive and headed back. Somewhere I hit a hole and got 57' on my computer - a new record 
. I had a little more air in my tank so I stayed behind for a few minutes. I saw "Munch", the spadefish without a tail, while I used up my tank. He seems to be happy and has picked up three friends. PHD and anonymous buddy watched our gear as we went back to our cars to switch tanks. We hit the water again and made it past the second anchor and played on the flat area out there for a while. On the way back I saw the black outcropping again. I tried to get a piece of that stuff to bring up but it crumbled in my fingers - I didn't want that all over me so I'll collect a sample some other day. We got back near the first anchor and kch was getting a little low on air (she's got a 63 not an 80) so I deployed the pony to save her air for the end of the trip. The deployment worked great and we got back to the North side of the jetty and she switched back to her reg. I packed up the pony as if nothing ever happened and we ended the dive. After lugging ourselves across the sand, kch went to lunch with PHD and buddy and I went to ScubaTech for fills and back home for gear cleaning. It was a good day to dive! Thanks for coming along kch.
Here are some pics - the last two are kch's first squeezes of the trigger, soon she'll be addicted.
. I had a little more air in my tank so I stayed behind for a few minutes. I saw "Munch", the spadefish without a tail, while I used up my tank. He seems to be happy and has picked up three friends. PHD and anonymous buddy watched our gear as we went back to our cars to switch tanks. We hit the water again and made it past the second anchor and played on the flat area out there for a while. On the way back I saw the black outcropping again. I tried to get a piece of that stuff to bring up but it crumbled in my fingers - I didn't want that all over me so I'll collect a sample some other day. We got back near the first anchor and kch was getting a little low on air (she's got a 63 not an 80) so I deployed the pony to save her air for the end of the trip. The deployment worked great and we got back to the North side of the jetty and she switched back to her reg. I packed up the pony as if nothing ever happened and we ended the dive. After lugging ourselves across the sand, kch went to lunch with PHD and buddy and I went to ScubaTech for fills and back home for gear cleaning. It was a good day to dive! Thanks for coming along kch. Here are some pics - the last two are kch's first squeezes of the trigger, soon she'll be addicted
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