Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Key West Florida 07/09/2018

Florida reef diving was always fun and relaxing. Heather and I were down in Key West for vacation, and fit in a day of ocean fun with Captain's Corners. Leslie was great getting us booked in, and the boat crew of Levi, Amanda and Jen were excellent. The fresh water hose on board for rinsing was amazing!

There had been a recent tropical storm, and the visibility really hadn't recovered yet. It wasn't bad, maybe 20 to 30 feet, but it could have been worse! We had been looking at the normally crystal clear water with some trepidation. The weather however was perfect. Not too rough and not too hot.

Our first dive site was Eastern Dry Rocks. It was a set of shallow reef fingers. I was able to try out a new travel sized wing, and a new 3mm wetsuit. Both worked a treat. We saw quite a few things. The highlight was all of the reef fish, and the discovery of some underwater treasure. A relatively new cell phone was sitting on the bottom in a protective case. It must have been dropped very recently as nothing was growing on it and I donated it to the boat crew. My pocket shorts came in handy to store it while we finished the dive. The pocket shorts looked dumb, but they worked!

The second dive on Rock Key was the best dive of the day. We saw a spiny lobster, green moray eels, groupers, spiny urchins, moon jellies and lots of pretty reef fish. I saw some kind of green insect too.

The coral health seemed OK as well. Not amazing but not bad, which was good to see.

On the whole, a fun day! I would highly recommend using Captain's Corners.

And finally, a short video...


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