Dive Log Day 2: The Big Scare

The Big Scare

So by now I had been paired up with these people I met for dinner the night before. They were really cool, fun people. Very fun. This happens after an unfortunate incident with my dive buddy @ Hard-bottomed cave. After I finished diving I find out they're harley riders! No wonder they were so fun!

The über-shy four-eyed butterfly fish



Again, red-eyed squirrel jack



Rock lobster!!! These guys starting swinging their antenna @ you when you come near their domain. It's as if to say... "I'll kick yo' azz mo-fo! You get out of my hood!" I love it!



This dive featured a couple of swim-throughs:



And beautiful underwater scenes:



And fishies hanging out together:



And my fun dive-buddies took a pic of yours truly:

Brief Check in from the Conch Shop in Key Largo

So the place that I'm staying @ in Big Pine Key doesn't have internet. I'm hanging out in the local coffee shop uploading a few pics whilst I wait to have dinner with some friends @ a great spot on Islamorada. I've dove and had dinner with these people the last two nights. They're rad.

I am so high on life right now it's not even funny! I'm leaving you with a few teaser pics before I motor on...

These pics are from the French Reef dive site called the big scare

Rock Lobster



Some Fishies... A Parrot Fish & Blue Wrasse



...and... drum roll plz.... underwater ham shot action

Dive Log: Day 1

Molasses Reef

So today is the first day I used my old canon digital camera with the digital underwater housing i found for it on the internet. I'm really stoked to have it! Today we dived Molasses Reef.

Spanish Anchor

This anchor wasn't exactly left by the spanish. I was told that it's another bullsh*t Key Largo story. Apparently a boat crashed into the reef, and the locals came out to help. Their help included dropping the ship's anchor and purposely dragging the boat across the reef demolishing it. They then charged the survivors to bring them back to shore and then went back that night and stole everything off the ship.

This dive was a min depth of 15 ft, max of 40 ft, and was supposed to be 60 minutes bottom time. My dive buddy had an issue so I ended up leaving with 1500 psi left in my tank. I did catch a bunch of cool pics though... lookey for yo' self:

Here's a barracuda



A red-eyed squirrel jack



A striped grunt



And a parrot fish

North Star

We went to the other side of the reef. This reef is named for a play on words of the huge coral that are the outer edge of the dive. This dive was a little deeper. It went between 15 - 40 ft and we got about 58 mins of bottom time and I came back with around 500 psi in my tank.

I got a 7-foot grouper on film as well as a blue tang, a french angel fish, and a trumpet fish, some fan coral, and a pork fish amongst other things.

A Blue Tang



A French Angel Fish



A trumpet fish



A trunk fish



Fan Coral



Grouper