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Great pictures. Those temps are really warm for June. This is shaping up to be wicked summer with lots of blowup storms from all that energy in the water.
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Awww man, swimming turtle the day AFTER I go
alwayssummer
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Hi y'all. I'm not sure if the correct place to post this, but I'll be in WPB from Aug 8-15 visiting friends. Wondering what there is to do in the area this time of year. What do you recommend?
Besides diving?
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Great diving and snorkeling of course with many options already listed on this and other Florida threads. Just read up for many charter/location suggestions.
Beyond diving, there are MANY state and local parks where you can hike, bike, bird watch, kayak, paddleboard, and swim. Almost too many to list across all of Palm Beach County from Boca Raton in the south all the way north to Jupiter and beyond into the counties to the north.
Loggerhead Marine Life Center in Juno Beach is not to be missed.
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton is also special.
If you like birds and reptiles, you have Wakodahatchee Wetlands and Green Cay Nature Preserve in inland Boynton/Delray.
Morikami Gardens in Delray Beach is a beautiful Japanese Garden that we always enjoy visiting.
I'm sure others will offer up other suggestions as well.
Check out Busch Wildlife in Jupiter. Busch Wildlife Sanctuary
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At a recent visit to Gumbo Limbo, at the fish feeding they gave a scathing lecture on fisherman and boaters. Go, but don't put money in the box. It's voluntary... by the way, I would bet at least some of their funding comes from revenues the Wallop-Breaux and Dingle-Johnson and Florida Fishing License sales.
alwayssummer
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Thanks for all the replies! I should have been more specific about what I'm looking for and I also jumped the gun asking what to do before finding relevant threads.
I suppose the main question is: what's good for diving in August? Any diving club activities I might want to look into? It's always nice to catch local divers.
I suppose the main question is: what's good for diving in August? Any diving club activities I might want to look into? It's always nice to catch local divers.
I'd recommend diving with a few different charters in Jupiter and Riviera Beach (Kyalami, JDC, Pura Vida, Narcosis to name a few). Do a few dives at BHB and make a trip to dive LBTS or Hollywood. Definitely connect with @Scuba_Jenny if you want a guide for the shore dives, she knows the sites like the back of her hands and will show you things that you definitely would not have seen. Purchase an out of state fishing license and do some lobstering while on the charters. Maybe do an LBTS night dive for lobsters. If it's late August, the Goliath Groupers might be around on the wrecks, they aggregate to the area in September for breeding. If you're into spearfishing, there are some charters which are very friendly to hunting.
I guess the better question is, what do you like to do? We have wrecks, ledges, hunting, sharks, turtles, shallow dives (under 60ft), deep dives (over 60ft), technical dives, shore dives, tropical fish sites, and larger creature sites.
I guess the better question is, what do you like to do? We have wrecks, ledges, hunting, sharks, turtles, shallow dives (under 60ft), deep dives (over 60ft), technical dives, shore dives, tropical fish sites, and larger creature sites.
I got back from Costa Rica on Thursday, just in time to miss the worldwide computer meltdown on Friday. I am still writing up that trip report, but in the meantime, here is a report from todays diving. Not wanting to drive down to LBTS, and not wanting to deal with half the divers in Florida at BHB, I bypassed Phil Foster Park, and instead did the Singer Island Mitigation Reef.
For those unfamiliar, the Mitigation Reef is located in front of the condos just north of the public beach, the one directly east of Pura Vida dive shop. Basically piles of rock west of hard bottom then some hard bottom with algae and bryozoans growing on it. The hard bottom forms small little ledges from 1-3 ft in height, and then slopes down to the sand in 17-20ft range on the east side of the hard bottom.
I mostly snorkel this site, and I always have a flag there. There are mooring balls for boats. Boats come and go frequently, so important to be watchful at this site. For diving it today I used 50cuft tanks, as it is a bit of trek across the sand to get there. When I entered at 0810, there was a strong north long shore current, I guess because of the wave action. Visibility was good at about 40ft, but with lots of large particulate, sea temp was 82f.
Today there were so many fish in the water column around the rocks it felt like swimming in an aquarium. There were at least twenty tarpon on site, green sea turtle, most members of the grunt family, a Hammerhead off in the distance, a bunch of Thrush Cowries, Sea Spiders, an Atlantic Guitarfish, Green Moray, Reef Croakers, Goldentail Moray and two large Spotted Eagle Rays, to name a few.
Had so much fun on the first tank, went back to my truck got another 50cuft tank and did the site a second time. Did REEF surveys of 54 species on the first dive, and 63 species on the second dive. Respectively, Atlantic Guitarfish, Goldentail Moray, Green Moray, and Tarpon.
For those unfamiliar, the Mitigation Reef is located in front of the condos just north of the public beach, the one directly east of Pura Vida dive shop. Basically piles of rock west of hard bottom then some hard bottom with algae and bryozoans growing on it. The hard bottom forms small little ledges from 1-3 ft in height, and then slopes down to the sand in 17-20ft range on the east side of the hard bottom.
I mostly snorkel this site, and I always have a flag there. There are mooring balls for boats. Boats come and go frequently, so important to be watchful at this site. For diving it today I used 50cuft tanks, as it is a bit of trek across the sand to get there. When I entered at 0810, there was a strong north long shore current, I guess because of the wave action. Visibility was good at about 40ft, but with lots of large particulate, sea temp was 82f.
Today there were so many fish in the water column around the rocks it felt like swimming in an aquarium. There were at least twenty tarpon on site, green sea turtle, most members of the grunt family, a Hammerhead off in the distance, a bunch of Thrush Cowries, Sea Spiders, an Atlantic Guitarfish, Green Moray, Reef Croakers, Goldentail Moray and two large Spotted Eagle Rays, to name a few.
Had so much fun on the first tank, went back to my truck got another 50cuft tank and did the site a second time. Did REEF surveys of 54 species on the first dive, and 63 species on the second dive. Respectively, Atlantic Guitarfish, Goldentail Moray, Green Moray, and Tarpon.
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