Dove both days on the Sea Cobra. Seas both days were similar, a little rough to start and calming down as the day went on.
Sat we did Long reef... vis was nice until we got to the bottom and then it sucked and the east rubble pile...which was better, but there was still a lot of large particles in the water.. suckes to be a photographer on days like this.
Sunday was my favorite reef -White Hill, followed by the liberty ship... both had excellent vis, and none of the large junk...The type of day one hopes for when diving in the gulf.
In the Liberty ship... I let my buddy go first (I had loaned him my bigger tanks, so knew he would have more air than me... and with my luck... at the end of the anchor, he has a school of eagle rays surround him, while I am just turning my camera on.. and then runs into a Goliath grouper... I am so not loaning him my tanks again.
Pictures... well not so good on Sat...but Sunday started with White hall....just off the anchor found a moray.. and got my camera on... and when I looked up,, there was a butterfly sitting right in front of the hole... and would not move:
then a young angel came by and they sort of got into a fight over the spot:
and eventually, the angel won out:
Why they wanted to park in front of the eel is beyond me...
But as soon as I pointed the camera in a different direction, they were gone.. so not wanting to have them come back... I tried taking a picture next to the eel... but then a cardinal fish.. got in the way:
And then finally, I got a picture.. but was too tired of taking pictures to wait for it;s mouth to open:
Sat we did Long reef... vis was nice until we got to the bottom and then it sucked and the east rubble pile...which was better, but there was still a lot of large particles in the water.. suckes to be a photographer on days like this.
Sunday was my favorite reef -White Hill, followed by the liberty ship... both had excellent vis, and none of the large junk...The type of day one hopes for when diving in the gulf.
In the Liberty ship... I let my buddy go first (I had loaned him my bigger tanks, so knew he would have more air than me... and with my luck... at the end of the anchor, he has a school of eagle rays surround him, while I am just turning my camera on.. and then runs into a Goliath grouper... I am so not loaning him my tanks again.
Pictures... well not so good on Sat...but Sunday started with White hall....just off the anchor found a moray.. and got my camera on... and when I looked up,, there was a butterfly sitting right in front of the hole... and would not move:
then a young angel came by and they sort of got into a fight over the spot:
and eventually, the angel won out:
Why they wanted to park in front of the eel is beyond me...
But as soon as I pointed the camera in a different direction, they were gone.. so not wanting to have them come back... I tried taking a picture next to the eel... but then a cardinal fish.. got in the way:
And then finally, I got a picture.. but was too tired of taking pictures to wait for it;s mouth to open:
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