The continuing sagas of the Blue Heron Bridge

[jimw]

We happened to go by BHB Sunday around low tide--what a difference. We had only been there diving before. The area out toward Peanut Island and to the left is a giant sandbar and Sunday was PACKED with boats. Viz was cloudy up by the beach and a ton of people in the park and on the beach. We saw no divers.

 

[jimw]

ScubaBoard Gallery - EagleRay_BHB

We saw this Eagle Ray today diving BHB. It seemed to be feeding on the pilings out by the boat channel. My zoom is all the way wide, so we were very close.

A nice dive even though the viz was a cloudy 25 ft and sometimes less--temp 84 degrees in the water. We plan to go again Friday.

 

[sportxlh]

ScubaBoard Gallery - EagleRay_BHB

We saw this Eagle Ray today diving BHB. It seemed to be feeding on the pilings out by the boat channel. My zoom is all the way wide, so we were very close.

A nice dive even though the viz was a cloudy 25 ft and sometimes less--temp 84 degrees in the water. We plan to go again Friday.

nice photo: I was out there today too, but did not see the eagle ray. I stayed south of the bridge where the viz was really good... once I proceeded under the span, viz dropped: there seemed to be a scuba camp group and they were kicking up some sand.

 

[sportxlh]

anybody have any clue as to what this is?? It crawled around like a caterpillar, had eyes that are similar to those on a mantis shrimp and some sort of antenna or skinny whip-like appendages

tried to get a shot of the sharptailed eel, but the arrow crab jumped in to hog the camera

 

[Sully3]

nice shots guys.

the "caterpillar" is a ciliated false squilla its a type of mantis shrimp

 

[tibenmiami]

 

[Sully3]

nice batfish!

 

[deeper thoughts]

Great batfish pix

 

[joystershell]

Here's looking at you, Babe!

 

[trigfunctions]

I'll be there Friday. Anyone else?