MRXRAY
Contributor
Hetland and I headed to Ft. Pickens Jettie for a night dive after a quick splash at the new Portifino Reef. (The Portifion Reef will be nice once more life moves in, we did however see one small Octopus on one of the Christmas trees.)
Splash time was 8:45 PM and the viz looked like it was 15-20 feet but with all the particulate it was hard to see much further than 15 feet with a flashlight. We made our way to the tire with Rods to tie our flag off and then headed deeper toward the organ in search of Critters to photograph. It didn't take long for us to stumble upon a nice Octopus that was just starting to venture out of it's hiding hole.
I shot a little video and took some shots of him but he wasn't very interested in entertaining visitors so we headed west in search of more victims. Again, it didn't take long for us to find some more willing participants and we spent almost our entire 75 minute dive playing with one or two Octopus in a 100 sqft area.
We came across a pair of Octopus engaged in a little foreplay which involves the male passing a package to the female which she.....well you get the idea. For an Octopus lover this was better than listening to stories of the EGG's favorite porn stars. :shocked2:
We also got to play with some huge shrimp (Prawn sized), I caught and released two, and a couple of squid. I had a great photo dive and will post a few pictures below!
We ended our dive at just past 10:00 PM. I showed a min temp of 79*. After the dive we headed to IHOP for some breakfast.....Yummy!
Soap fish eating a pin fish..... Very odd sighting.
Splash time was 8:45 PM and the viz looked like it was 15-20 feet but with all the particulate it was hard to see much further than 15 feet with a flashlight. We made our way to the tire with Rods to tie our flag off and then headed deeper toward the organ in search of Critters to photograph. It didn't take long for us to stumble upon a nice Octopus that was just starting to venture out of it's hiding hole.
I shot a little video and took some shots of him but he wasn't very interested in entertaining visitors so we headed west in search of more victims. Again, it didn't take long for us to find some more willing participants and we spent almost our entire 75 minute dive playing with one or two Octopus in a 100 sqft area.
We came across a pair of Octopus engaged in a little foreplay which involves the male passing a package to the female which she.....well you get the idea. For an Octopus lover this was better than listening to stories of the EGG's favorite porn stars. :shocked2:
We also got to play with some huge shrimp (Prawn sized), I caught and released two, and a couple of squid. I had a great photo dive and will post a few pictures below!
We ended our dive at just past 10:00 PM. I showed a min temp of 79*. After the dive we headed to IHOP for some breakfast.....Yummy!
Soap fish eating a pin fish..... Very odd sighting.