The continuing sagas of the Blue Heron Bridge

[Dr. Doug Ebersole]

Actually we were off the east span Monday night and the "warning" signs were down. Hopefully, it will be officially back open soon.

 

[jimw]

Viz wasn't great but the life was except for the large lion!! Viz 15-20ft water temp 79F.
We found a little seahorse too, so--yep, almost the BHB trifecta, froggie, horse, but no pipefish. Life sucks

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

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Here are a couple of shots from last night. One is of an octopus appearing to dispute intrusion by paparazzi (my buddy - who was absolutely entranced by the attempted camera grab), and the other a critter we'd never seen - best guess is that it's an Atlantic sidegill slug. Can anyone confirm that ID for us? And to the guy that grabbed our runaway dive flag...thank you!

Here's the shot I have:

 

[djtimmy77]

How about this one?

 

[scubajim 1]

I went on the night dive last night at the bridge. It was my first dive there. Not being from the area, I wasn't sure what to expect. I met up with two gentlemen from the area, Jim and Tom both of whom were very familiar with this site. They allowed me to tag along with them on their dive. I must say that it was an awesome dive. Where I normally dive you are lucky if you see a sunfish, so getting to see all of the sea life down there was amazing. I now know what all the hype is about. In fact I plan on going back tomorrow morning for another dive before my vacation ends. Again thank you to Jim and Tom. Call me if you come to my neck of the woods and I will show you around some of our local spots.

I would seriously dispute the characterization of either Tom or myself as “gentlemen”...: (maybe an ogre and a troll) but it was a great dive. Looking forward to seeing your pictures from the dive and we intend to take you up on your offer.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Viz wasn't great but the life was except for the large lion!! Viz 15-20ft water temp 79F.
We found a little seahorse too, so--yep, almost the BHB trifecta, froggie, horse, but no pipefish. Life sucks

I think this is one case where naming the exact location of the lionfish would be OK

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Did a dive yesterday morning. High tide 9:02 AM. Delightful dive! Lots of octopi and other critters. Was down about 2 hrs.

 

[danvolker]

You don't seem to understand... 90% of us used to dive the east span as our #1 location. There is much more to see there and the diving was generally better all-around

I know plenty of the regulars here love the East span....still, it is a separate area that can recover from silting very quickly--since the tidal inflow pushes the silty water straight through under the east bridge. Even if you want to dive this area while students are in the vicinity, when they silt here, it will clear much faster. More over, it is a great place for instruction, and it keeps the worst silting behaviors away from 90% of the rest of the prefered dive areas in the BHB park.

Also, in this conversation thread, it was never about asking anyone for legistative or legal changes--it was always about us trying to make some agreements up for ourselves, with no need for government intervention, and no need for enforcement. Divers should not purposely try to ruin a dive for other divers, and I'd like to believe that if we approach this the right way, for issues like this we should never have a problem. We could put up some underwater signs...not enforceable, but I don't thinkl there is a need for enforcement, as I already said...All there would be a need for would be consensus, and so far, there is none !!??

 

[mntlblok]

Seagrasses


Have still not done a full year at BHB and still keep finding new stuff on every dive. The Johnson's Seagrass intrigues me for some reason and I note that it is only now growing back in after apparently going dormant during the cooler months. Turns out that it is the first seagrass listed under the Endangered Species Act. Eyeing some of it over caused me to find a most bizarre decorator crab. Hope to get the video up sometime. He's hilarious.

Kevin

YouTube - ‪We're Not Worthy or The Ent.avi‬‏ Guess I'm now addicted to cowbell. . .

He's in the lower left corner of the "bushes" in the attached pic. Surprised that I even found him. I have an idea that I can find him, again, though. . . Anyway, the I think the video is pretty funny. Check it out.

Kevin

 

[mntlblok]

Marcocoeloma trispinosum

A couple of them. . .

Kevin