SeaYoda
Contributor
After an early morning dive at the Navarre Beach Pier with several other SBers, I headed back to Destin for a dive at the jetties. High tide was at 2:30ish and I was back in town by 11:00. I stopped by ScubaTech for air fills and an adjustment to my pony second stage. It had been very easy to freeflow with just a touch on the purge. During the dive at the pier I wanted to extend my time on the bottom so I switched to the pony when I was at about 500 lbs on my back gas. The pony freeflowed so I turned the valve down low and breathed a lot 
. Steve at ScubaTech tuned down the pony reg for me so I could use it on my dive at the Jetties - thanks Steve! I grabbed some lunch to kill a little time and was at the parking area by noon. It was crowded as usual so I found a spot to pull my Jedi parking maneuver. I was still past the entrance to the marina. I geared up having seen the beautiful blue water from the bridge and expecting great viz. I did the walk across the sand thing - very crowded as usual for summer at the beach. As I got in the water I saw a member of my local dive club, lucky dog had come by boat and not across the sand. As I stuck my head under water, I did not see the great viz I had expected. There was a fair amount of June grass, silty fog, and sargassum weed mixed together. Viz was about 20' most of the dive with several broccoli and snot storms bringing the viz down to 10' at times. The fish species of the day was the cigar minnow, they were everywhere. The current was not bad for being about two hours before high tide. I did get to do a lazy drift dive back from the anchor. Here are the pictures from the dive:
. Steve at ScubaTech tuned down the pony reg for me so I could use it on my dive at the Jetties - thanks Steve! I grabbed some lunch to kill a little time and was at the parking area by noon. It was crowded as usual so I found a spot to pull my Jedi parking maneuver. I was still past the entrance to the marina. I geared up having seen the beautiful blue water from the bridge and expecting great viz. I did the walk across the sand thing - very crowded as usual for summer at the beach. As I got in the water I saw a member of my local dive club, lucky dog had come by boat and not across the sand. As I stuck my head under water, I did not see the great viz I had expected. There was a fair amount of June grass, silty fog, and sargassum weed mixed together. Viz was about 20' most of the dive with several broccoli and snot storms bringing the viz down to 10' at times. The fish species of the day was the cigar minnow, they were everywhere. The current was not bad for being about two hours before high tide. I did get to do a lazy drift dive back from the anchor. Here are the pictures from the dive:
