What a day for a dive. Weather was perfect, except the wind was a bit strong, but at least it was out of the NE.
Met up with Firebrand at Alhambra, and after a detour to Florida West, we hit the water around 10:30.
My expectations for this dive were dim. The water looked milky, and the other groups of divers were out and in in a short amount of time. We went out anyway, and had a pretty decent dive. Vis was 1' with 2' patches (over the beds too
). We found some stuff, around 40 teeth, nothing spectacular. We spent a few minutes digging on the drop off next to shore and found a couple of small (but nice) teeth.
We decided to head to Casperson beach for the second dive, but there were no parking spaces available, unless we wanted to walk a loooooong way, so we headed back to alhambra.
We didn't make it. We stopped just north of Casperson and decided to try there. About 1/4 mile south of the pier. Dropped down just past the sandbar to around 7' and headed west. VIS SUCKED. Maybe 6" at most. I was about to call it a day, when it started clearing up - all the way to a spectacular 6-8'! 11 minutes into the dive, Firebrand taps me and shows me a MEG he just found. Not two minutes later, I found 1/2 a meg (500k?).
Looked around and headed out to 18'-20'. Found a slight (maybe 1/2 knot) southerly current, so we did a drift dive over the reef. Really relaxing and nice dive. It's a shame that most of this reef will be gone soon.
Firebrand, really nice to meet you. Hope we have a chance to dive together again soon.
Met up with Firebrand at Alhambra, and after a detour to Florida West, we hit the water around 10:30.
My expectations for this dive were dim. The water looked milky, and the other groups of divers were out and in in a short amount of time. We went out anyway, and had a pretty decent dive. Vis was 1' with 2' patches (over the beds too
). We found some stuff, around 40 teeth, nothing spectacular. We spent a few minutes digging on the drop off next to shore and found a couple of small (but nice) teeth.We decided to head to Casperson beach for the second dive, but there were no parking spaces available, unless we wanted to walk a loooooong way, so we headed back to alhambra.
We didn't make it. We stopped just north of Casperson and decided to try there. About 1/4 mile south of the pier. Dropped down just past the sandbar to around 7' and headed west. VIS SUCKED. Maybe 6" at most. I was about to call it a day, when it started clearing up - all the way to a spectacular 6-8'! 11 minutes into the dive, Firebrand taps me and shows me a MEG he just found. Not two minutes later, I found 1/2 a meg (500k?).
Looked around and headed out to 18'-20'. Found a slight (maybe 1/2 knot) southerly current, so we did a drift dive over the reef. Really relaxing and nice dive. It's a shame that most of this reef will be gone soon.
Firebrand, really nice to meet you. Hope we have a chance to dive together again soon.
