Too busy the past two days diving to follow-up. Feeling a bit like the "United Nations of Key Largo Dive Shops" - I worked with students, guided/translated for 2 shops, certified 1 student from a 3rd shop, dove from 3 different boats: Seadwellers, Horizon, & Island Ventures...it's all good in Key Largo.
Thurs: 4 dives on Molasses Reef (Train wreck, Eagle Ray Alley, Aquarium) - water temp 87, flat seas, almost no wind, viz ranged from 50-70 ft depending on site/time of day/etc. Current picked up as the day went on. And the jelly fish have returned a few hanging out near the surface. You can see the Coral Restoration folks have been busy planting (attaching) baby corals at various sites at Molasses.
Fri: 2 dives at Elbow Reef - Mike's wreck and South Ledges - seas picked up to about 2ft choppy, viz down to about 40-50 but we did see: many more jelly fish than yesterday, turtle, lobsters, big crab, teeny little flounder, nurse shark, and while returning to boat @ 15ft school of horse eye jacks passed us (from a distance I 1st thought tuna?) and looked beneath them so see a 12+ ft bull shark circling for supper. We don't see those very often here.
With nary a remnant of TS Emily, I hear today there is no wind, flat seas, 80ft viz, light current, the water is great but watch for jellies (rash guards strongly recommended). If you are hanging out on the boat and not in the water, the boat crew says "It's stupid hot out here".
