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Alabama Point Jetties 7-15-6
After an early morning dive at Navarre Beach Pier, NateBrr and frankc420, viajerochevere, and two of their buddies(big one-armed Mike and Randy) and I headed back to Orange Beach to get some fills from Gary's Gulf Diver and some lunch at Tacky Jacks before heading to Alabama Point Jetties for a dive nearly 4.5 hours after our first. There wasn't a large transition of water today and there would be a neap the next day, but we hoped for the best while entering the water. We entered at slack tide and visibility ranged between 5-10' with lots of particle suspended. There were quite a few mangroves around and we saw a few sheepshead and flounder as well. Scad schooled in large numbers on occasion. I saw lots of blennies and sandfish hiding in the rocks with blue and stone crabs as well. We dove to the point, turned the dive, and dove the inside of the channel back to our entry point. I managed to find a hole to 33' and the dive lasted 77 min.
Whiskey Wreck 7-15-6
Our group(minus Nate who called it a day to catch up on sleep) headed back to GGD to get another fill and headed to the Whiskey Wreck. We were back in the water after a bit more than a 2 hour SI. I dove ahead and hooked the flag to the wreck and reported visibility to be a fairly clean 5-10'. There were lots of seargant majors and damsels on the wreck. Mangroves, spades, pinfish, and pigfish swam in and out all the wrecks nooks and crannies. There were quite a few bluecrabs eating barnacles off the hull and flounder were plentiful(even during the day). I spotted two different species of filefish, which was kinda cool. I hit a max depth of 18' for a dive lasting 83 minutes.
Whiskey Wreck 7-15-6(Night)
viajerochevere, Randy, and I were back in the water to dive the Whiskey Wreck slightly more than an hour after our last dive. The surf had subsided quite a bit and visibility improved to 10-20'. Most of the same fish were out, in larger numbers, and lots of catfish and stingrays started showing up. Flounder covered the bottom, but no large ones were spotted. We saw a nice big pufferfish and crabs with barnacles outstretching their feeders to catch particle floating in the water. We planned on a 30 min dive, but conditions were great so we stayed 45 minutes with a max depth of 17'. We swam back to the beach UW without lights, there was enogh ambient light from the condos to see our way back and we watched the bioluminescents flash as we swam. Had a great dive to top off a day of fun dives
After an early morning dive at Navarre Beach Pier, NateBrr and frankc420, viajerochevere, and two of their buddies(big one-armed Mike and Randy) and I headed back to Orange Beach to get some fills from Gary's Gulf Diver and some lunch at Tacky Jacks before heading to Alabama Point Jetties for a dive nearly 4.5 hours after our first. There wasn't a large transition of water today and there would be a neap the next day, but we hoped for the best while entering the water. We entered at slack tide and visibility ranged between 5-10' with lots of particle suspended. There were quite a few mangroves around and we saw a few sheepshead and flounder as well. Scad schooled in large numbers on occasion. I saw lots of blennies and sandfish hiding in the rocks with blue and stone crabs as well. We dove to the point, turned the dive, and dove the inside of the channel back to our entry point. I managed to find a hole to 33' and the dive lasted 77 min.
Whiskey Wreck 7-15-6
Our group(minus Nate who called it a day to catch up on sleep) headed back to GGD to get another fill and headed to the Whiskey Wreck. We were back in the water after a bit more than a 2 hour SI. I dove ahead and hooked the flag to the wreck and reported visibility to be a fairly clean 5-10'. There were lots of seargant majors and damsels on the wreck. Mangroves, spades, pinfish, and pigfish swam in and out all the wrecks nooks and crannies. There were quite a few bluecrabs eating barnacles off the hull and flounder were plentiful(even during the day). I spotted two different species of filefish, which was kinda cool. I hit a max depth of 18' for a dive lasting 83 minutes.
Whiskey Wreck 7-15-6(Night)
viajerochevere, Randy, and I were back in the water to dive the Whiskey Wreck slightly more than an hour after our last dive. The surf had subsided quite a bit and visibility improved to 10-20'. Most of the same fish were out, in larger numbers, and lots of catfish and stingrays started showing up. Flounder covered the bottom, but no large ones were spotted. We saw a nice big pufferfish and crabs with barnacles outstretching their feeders to catch particle floating in the water. We planned on a 30 min dive, but conditions were great so we stayed 45 minutes with a max depth of 17'. We swam back to the beach UW without lights, there was enogh ambient light from the condos to see our way back and we watched the bioluminescents flash as we swam. Had a great dive to top off a day of fun dives