We just dove Pepper Park this morning. High tide was 9:11am, we hit somewhere around 9:28 Headed east, over the first reef and onto the second. Swam south and came across a decent sized sleeping turtle under a ledge- roughly trash can lid size. Turned around at 1800psi and came across a smaller turtle on the wing. Since we'd never been here before, I surfaced when we estimated we were back in line with the shore entry. Sure enough, we were spot on. Still had about 1400psi, so we went a little farther north, keeping on the second reef. Reversed course at 1100psi, then came back in west. I finished with 800, the missus something like 1200. Vis was 25' at best, 15 at worst. Water 80F, very light winds out of the west. 1h11 total underwater.
Besides the two turtles, saw lots of blennies, scorpionfish, sandfish, porkfish, a hogfish, various small wrasse, sea cukes, and something that looked like a furry sea cucumber. Lots of sea urchins. No lobster. Compared to father south, the reef feels more eroded and less healthy. I'm no reef expert though, I'm just going on aesthetics.
We'd dive it again, due to its relative proximity for us versus BHB, LTBS, etc. However for marine life, we do rank other spots higher. I think today's weather was probably the best it can get, and it was a very pleasant dive.
Rented from Odyssea, which was a nice enough shop.
Not intending to hijack the thread, just providing a very recent perspective on a shore dive in your target area.