Welcome. That whole coast, up as far north as about Jupiter, is the beneficiary of the Gulf Stream. As a beginner you might want to dive in no-current water to start with where you fin away from boat anchor line to an out-and-back attraction--wreck, ledge, etc. It teaches you navigation, finning technique, the stuff you did in the pool.
But your local diving will (almost always) be drift-diving, where you divers, probably accompanied by the DM towing a surface buoy, all drift northward as you check out a ledge and the flora and fauna, while current takes both you and boat northward, and boat follows the buoy. So you don't have to kick much except to stay oriented north. And when you surface, boat should be nearby, you're all in the same piece of ocean, moving with current. Which means your tank lasts longer, since much less finning than the out-and-back dives.
A couple of skills you'll need, and will get good at over time, is the "free ascent", no anchor line to grip and slide upwards on. You'll get better on this pretty quickly, paying most attention to that 15-foot safety stop, and controlling your breath and your BC so you bleed off air to stop at 15 and stay there, you'll learn more about controlling buoyancy at 15 than you did deeper, as you'll use the inflate and dump valves along with your inhales and exhales to "breathe" yourself up and down, and to stay neutral when you need to. This is much easier to learn with an anchor line in your hand than in your free-ascent, but you'll get the hang of it (pun intended) pretty quickly.
The other skill is getting "kitted up" and ready to giant-stride into the ocean quickly, so you and your fellow divers are splashing in as a group, which then makes it easier to stay in a group, near the DM.
So, best wishes.
PS I just noticed you have 50-plus dives, so I'm preaching to the choir, but will leave the advice up anyway, it may benefit one of your buddies who's newer.
