Nice dive on sunday afternoon. We arrived around 1pm, found one of the 4 elusive spots by the showers, pumped it with change and chatted for a few moments whilst rigging up with another pair just coming out.
There were about 12-18in wavelets breaking on the shore, nothing too bad. Scubaguy had already been out that morning as had the other pair, they said it was quite green and sands had shifted due to hurricanes, but i dont think it was too bad. I would say viz was 15ft at worst and close to 30ft at best, we jumped in around high tide, so that might have hindered the conditions. We swam out about 100yds or so and dropped down, there were a couple of patchy reefs, that actually got quite shallow (11ft) with sandier reaches between (17-18ft), i think we crossed two larger sandy reaches - although we seemed to swim due east for the longest time
The first line was patchy, but ran into an area that looked like the honeycombing around LBTS, the second line was lumpy coral/limestone, the drop off was just after a healthy looking section of coral on a heavy limestone reef - again just like LBTS when you go far out. So after about a 30-35min swim out we reach the drop off, a good number of fish, lots of nice nooks to peek into. We swam south for about 15-20 mins or so. We maxed out at around 25ft, but we didnt hit the bottom of the drop off - checked out the fish for a while and then headed back in on WNW. Came in pretty much dead on the parking area - with the north current to assist
Krista was trying out her new E7-80 water cooler bottle with her recently dived new 5mm wetsuit although still used so little air it made me want to baulk!
The water was ok for viz, temp in the mid-70's, there was some kind of thermocline from 75 to 77 out further, couldnt approx the distance, only that it was out nearer the dropoff. Just as a precaution i put a bit of the old alcohol solution in my ears to keep them away from further trouble. It was a good 80 min dive, could have been longer, but wasnt sure how long it would take us to get back in so thought better safe than sorry! Sorry no-one else could make it out there.