Jupiter 2010 - Ongoing

[FritzCat66]

I thought I created a thread with this heading earlier, but apparently not, so anyway...

I'm leaning towards doing the 9am 2-tank morning dive with Jupiter Dive Center tomorrow (July 31).

Weather and marine forecast look perfect:

Saturday
West southwest winds 5 to 8 knots becoming south southwest 6 to 9 knots. Seas less than 2 feet. Intracoastal waters a light chop.

Plus, the mini-season craziness will be over!

1) Any other SBers doing JDC on Saturday morning? Let me know so I can book that boat (both have availability right now).

2) Anyone from the Space Coast / Daytona / East Orlando area want to carpool? Right now I'm going solo, would be nice to split gas. Am planning to dive, go out for lunch, then come back, usually home 5-ish.

 

[DebbyDiver]

Fritz, I can't do a Saturday but are you ever available to dive on a Friday? They have a great Friday afternoon 2-tanker.

 

[FritzCat66]

Fritz, I can't do a Saturday but are you ever available to dive on a Friday? They have a great Friday afternoon 2-tanker.

Unfortunately, due to the 2.5 hours it takes me to drive there, a Friday afternoon dive would actually take me out of work the whole day, which makes it unlikely. :depressed: For those times when I'm taking Friday off anyway, I usually make the most of it by doing the morning 3-tanker.

For me, the advantage of the morning dives is getting back home and thus not incurring the overnight costs. That's also why Jupiter is my most common site - it's the closest really good reef with reliably good ops as I drive I-95 south. Luckily it also happens to have some of the best diving in all of Florida! I would like to be getting down to Boynton and beyond more, but I hate having to pay even a cheap hotel the same price I would be paying for a boat trip. I can budget the gas and about two boat trips every other weekend - or one boat trip and a hotel stay. Which would you choose?

I have a light at the end of this tunnel: With some luck, early next year I'm planning on trading in my pop-up for a used camper van so I can just park at a Wal-Mart overnight and dive South Florida all weekend - seriously! Whatever it takes, ya know?

(shiesh I feel like a freaking junkie...)

 

[djtimmy77]

I'll be on one of the boats tomorrow morning. Not sure which one, my buddy made the reservation.

 

[OneRestlessNative]

Fritz...

If I wasn't working evenings till 2am and planning for a Keys trip in a week, I'd gladly carpool down there with ya. Maybe we can set something up in the near future on a weekend.

 

[DebbyDiver]

Fritz, I hear ya! I don't like a morning weekday dive in Jupiter because the rush hour traffic from S. Broward is killer. Maybe I'll catch you up there on a Sunday then.

I'm envious that you're getting a Class B, I've been lusting after one for years for the very same reason!

 

[Orlando Eric]

Hehe.. and I was thinking I like diving on the weekdays because there are not as many people on the boat. THere is a BIG EXPANSE of empty cow land between me and Jupiter. No traffic for me once I hit I95

 

[DebbyDiver]

Lucky you...I'm in SE Broward and Jupiter is in NE Palm Beach County so I have to navigate BOTH of those rush hour traffic hells to get to the boat for a morning dive. Did it once last year, exhausting.

 

[djtimmy77]

Good dives this morning on Republic IV. 6 turtles, 4-6 reef sharks, 5 or 6 nurse sharks, a dozen or more goliath grouper, saw a couple lobsters that people missed, saw 1 lionfish, who is no longer with us.

12 people on the boat was also very nice.

 

[Scott L]

saw 1 lionfish, who is no longer with us.

How did you dispatch?