SeaYoda
Contributor
After laying flooring until 10 pm on Friday night, I woke up on Saturday and felt like someone used my entire body for a punching bag 
. Undaunted by my physical condition, I got all my gear together and headed to the jetties. I was thinking that it was about 8 am on a Saturday so parking would be at least decent - WRONG. I had to park the furthest away that I've ever had to park. On the way to my spot I saw kchFLA and FSUgly (they got spots a little closer to the entrance but not by much). We geared up for the LONG walk. The water was a pretty blue and the viz was about 30' - 35' on the first dive. Here is the graph of temp and depth from my Sensus Ultra:
We saw lots of filefish, blue runners, toadfish, sandfish, sandperch, tiny damsels, porgy, snapper, spades, blennies, burrfish, tons of crabs, and one baby triggerfish. On the dive there were several divers we ran into. We attempted to get to the anchors on the first dive but we encountered some huge current as we rounded the point. The water was flowing in from the Gulf so hard that we had to do the hand crawl across the rocks. We turned the dive on kch's air before we got to the first anchor and were blown back to the North side of the finger jetty in quick fashion. I had quite a bit of air left in my tank (Carla at ScubaTech always gives me my money's worth) so I played on the North side taking pictures for a while. I finally came to the surface and kch decided not to do a second dive so she watched the gear as FSU and I walked back to the cars to swap tanks. On the way, I met up with one of the guys from my local scuba club (Scubaholics). We chatted on the way which kept my mind off that long walk. After swapping tanks and gearing up, FSU and I descended once more. The viz was a little less, 25' - 30'. Here's the graph from this dive:
We rounded the point and the current had stopped so we made it out to both anchors. We turned the dive and headed back in. There were not nearly as many divers out on the second dive as the first. We wandered our way back across the sand and into the cars. It was another good dive day, thanks for the great company kch and FSU. Here are some pictures:
. Undaunted by my physical condition, I got all my gear together and headed to the jetties. I was thinking that it was about 8 am on a Saturday so parking would be at least decent - WRONG. I had to park the furthest away that I've ever had to park. On the way to my spot I saw kchFLA and FSUgly (they got spots a little closer to the entrance but not by much). We geared up for the LONG walk. The water was a pretty blue and the viz was about 30' - 35' on the first dive. Here is the graph of temp and depth from my Sensus Ultra:
We saw lots of filefish, blue runners, toadfish, sandfish, sandperch, tiny damsels, porgy, snapper, spades, blennies, burrfish, tons of crabs, and one baby triggerfish. On the dive there were several divers we ran into. We attempted to get to the anchors on the first dive but we encountered some huge current as we rounded the point. The water was flowing in from the Gulf so hard that we had to do the hand crawl across the rocks. We turned the dive on kch's air before we got to the first anchor and were blown back to the North side of the finger jetty in quick fashion. I had quite a bit of air left in my tank (Carla at ScubaTech always gives me my money's worth
) so I played on the North side taking pictures for a while. I finally came to the surface and kch decided not to do a second dive so she watched the gear as FSU and I walked back to the cars to swap tanks. On the way, I met up with one of the guys from my local scuba club (Scubaholics). We chatted on the way which kept my mind off that long walk. After swapping tanks and gearing up, FSU and I descended once more. The viz was a little less, 25' - 30'. Here's the graph from this dive:
We rounded the point and the current had stopped so we made it out to both anchors. We turned the dive and headed back in. There were not nearly as many divers out on the second dive as the first. We wandered our way back across the sand and into the cars. It was another good dive day, thanks for the great company kch and FSU. Here are some pictures:
