Last day of diving for this short visit. Did two tanks with Walker's this morning. It rained much of the night, this morning was quite fair with some blue sky. Seas were a bit up today, generally around 2-3 but with some bigger, particularly on the way back in. Water temp remained very warm at 86-87 degrees and visibility was 30-35 feet. I heard from several different people that the visibility in Jupiter yesterday was dismal.
Went out with Capt. Mike, guide Christina, mate Andrea. Our 1st dive was at Tear Drop. We expected a north current but it turned out to be mild south. We went south on Tear Drop and had a perfectly good dive. We moved slowly and were able to appreciate the reef life including some gorgeous giant anemones, orange filefish, a large free swimming green moray and all the usual reef fish. We did our second dive at Turtle Mound into Breakers, counting on the south current. We met the very friendly adolescent goliath grouper , Jasper on Turtle Mound. Very gregarious, making close passes, following, and coming in for a chin rub. Reminded me very much of the young Wilbur on the Castor in Boynton Beach back in the day. There was also an octopus lair on Turtle Mound, easily identified by the pile of shells. The octopus was home. Breakers was a very nice reef drift with a nice juvenile drum and more giant anemones. For
@Johnoly, though I was not really looking, there were several lobster on each of the dives today. I don't think anyone was hunting.
Eight good dives over 5 days in West Palm and Boynton, I consider myself very lucky. Until next time...
