MRXRAY
Contributor
My Dad is in town visiting and I have been trying to get him comfortable in the water so after 4 dives at Vortex yesterday I decided to try out Ft. Pickens and see how that went. I wrangled Grouper321 into joining and we all met near the showers at around 6:00 PM. We were way off from high tide but since it is a Neap tide this weekend we thought that we might give it a try anyways.
We hit the water at 6:30 PM and made our way right down to the Pipe Organ where there was a nice sized Octopus hanging out. We played around with him for a bit before we wandered a bit to the West checking out the tires and several rocks as we went. I saw a few more Ocotopus just starting to come out for the evening hunt and I managed to coax out a small Octopus that was very interested in touching me. We all took our turn letting him run around on us before we placed him back into a small hole in a rock and continued on our way.
We spotted several Striped Burrfish, a ton of soap fish and a couple of Toad fish, a large school of spades, some nice sized sheepsheads and some very, very small Frogfish and a tiny Flounder that looked like he might belong at Morrison's.
Viz was only about 5 feet but the water was very warm at the top with only a couple of colder thermoclines deeper. I marked a min temp of 72*, we were down 65 minutes and I marked a max depth of 41 feet. I haven't opened my camera to process the Octopus pics and video as we are going offshore early in the AM so I'll have to post them tomorrow.
We hit the water at 6:30 PM and made our way right down to the Pipe Organ where there was a nice sized Octopus hanging out. We played around with him for a bit before we wandered a bit to the West checking out the tires and several rocks as we went. I saw a few more Ocotopus just starting to come out for the evening hunt and I managed to coax out a small Octopus that was very interested in touching me. We all took our turn letting him run around on us before we placed him back into a small hole in a rock and continued on our way.
We spotted several Striped Burrfish, a ton of soap fish and a couple of Toad fish, a large school of spades, some nice sized sheepsheads and some very, very small Frogfish and a tiny Flounder that looked like he might belong at Morrison's.
Viz was only about 5 feet but the water was very warm at the top with only a couple of colder thermoclines deeper. I marked a min temp of 72*, we were down 65 minutes and I marked a max depth of 41 feet. I haven't opened my camera to process the Octopus pics and video as we are going offshore early in the AM so I'll have to post them tomorrow.
