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Much, MUCH thanks - very helpful (and encouraging). Does the reef pretty much follow parallel to the shoreline in semi-continuous lines or is it broken up? Will we have to hunt for reef or will we find it just about anywhere we enter? Is Bathtub a restaurant or something? LBTS="Lauderdale...

What's the reef like off Jensen Beach? We're staying at the Courtyard by Marriott, 10978 S. Ocean Drive over the 4th. How's the depth, visibility, current? Any comparision to home (LBTS)?

You're doing fine. The tandem BLACK diveyak handles *better* solo than it does with two because of the weight of the front person. Tanks and gear up there aren't as heavy as a person, so if you loaded gear up front and behind you it wouldn't be any problem. I would always recommend buying the...

We have mistakenly called many dives during Fall, Winer and Spring due to bad forecasts over the last few years living in LBTS. Then again, it works the other way too! Wind direction is usually the best predictor of good shore diving conditions after Summer IME. I know this is of little...

Soooo true even for us simple reef divers! This insight should be up front in bold print in every solo manual.

I had to think about this only a second - an obvious answer, instructive as well as vindictive! About once a month I get lectured on the beach or even inside our condo's beach walls by well meaning but what I can only describe as "stern" lecturers. They're mostly older folks, and quite adamant...

Sounds like a good plan. This is the kind of diving we do most here. After depth, our biggest solo-problem is the careless boater (very few here, but we do see them). FYI I've come to prefer a float like the Sevlor snorkel raft to a kayak, but either is safer than a simple flag on a stick IMO...

Me too. I think the key is to have that perfect meeting of the minds before you head out.

Just to round out the thread, I'm outgoing and though I do enjoy my solitude I'll miss companionship when I'm topside or below. I solo 99% of the time because I simply don't have convenient buddies.

It was nice swimming with the sharks - never seen ONE here in LBTS (except for nurse sharks). Only a few on our boat saw the sharks, however, and the others were very disappointed.

After diving Molasses (Key Largo) I can't say that Looe Key is better. We were told (first time on Looe Key reefs) by the DM that we were seeing "better than typical" visibility - 45 feet. It seems that the silt out of the Gulf may be the culprit because the Busch was covered with it. I'm...

Hi back to all! Glad to see the usual suspects are still online. Just confirmed the trip. There are 5 of us, maybe 7, so far. Anybody still on the fence? If so just say "YES!"

Hi all... it's been a while. Matt's coming back to town and hopefully the weather will cooperate. Recall that he was the brave soul who helped everybody out of the water 2 summers ago on a short-handed boat while chumming all the while... what a guy! We have reservations for October 10th...

... but that's improvement! I was going to post that the surf zone actually looked much "cleaner" this morning (Thursday). The wind is north (you must have had a fun ride back), and soon it will be westerly again... not soon enough, tho!

Yes, the outlets were contaminated by runoff, which included sewer overflow. That should be over and done with. I heard alerts for Deerfield but not for Pompao Beach, not that I'd enjoy swimming on the fringe lol. The alert warned of gastro-something-or-other symptoms at the time. We always...

We haven't had a good day yet, but by now it's due to a number of factors other than Wilma... watch the wind, and when it's coming out of the west again it should be good to go.

We needed this change of scenery more than I could have known. The weather was great and stars BRIGHT in the cool, dry air. The Juniper Springs canoe trip was terrific (saw gators, a BIG buck and all the usual snakes, turtles, skinks and something WHITE that looked like an iguana) and we spent...

Nice weather, but if they're recommending no swimmers around the inlet then I'm glad I'll be in Ocala this weekend... besides, the water is silty from a week of winds and probably won't be all that clear by the weekend. So... back to normal routine, which means we can drop this thread... it's...

We're confirmed for the Juniper Springs canoe trip on Saturday so Sunday is our biking/swimming day. If anybody will be diving, please post so we'll know who to look for. We're leaving Friday about 10 am an although I'm wireless I don't know how Verizon broadband will work up there. Happy diving!

Actually, it would be nice to see all the dive ops competing here on price! I'd like to know current prices without having to call around.