Blogs from Riviera Beach, Florida, United States, North America - page 4

The aroma of Deb’s fresh brewing coffee woke me up. Hmmm it was going to be a great day. It was sunday morning. We chit- chatted like good girlz we are. We discussed how to address the aggressive behavior of divers trying to see our subjects. Steve was still half awake. I threw him and his gear in the back of my truck and headed to the west side of the bridge. When we got there our group was already in the water. I followed their flags and I saw a group of 3 divers chasing Diane. At some point I thought they were going to land on top of her and her subject: an orange-tinted striated froggie so I cut in front to protect Diane. The current pushed me towards them and of course the ... read more

My Capt wants me back on the boat tomorrow so I decided to sneak in another dive good viz or not. The water looked clear at the beach but once I got in it was very particulate. Oh well I will practice navigation today. I went to see Sandra’s striated froggie in front of the playground. It wasn’t so pregnant and wasn’t doing anything interesting so I snapped a few shots but didn’t make any efforts to get a good one. I continued west looking for the Pink Horn seahorses but no sign of them. Viz was getting worse. I continued anyway. I swam on the surface to the mark and dropped on it and there it was: a little tiny dworfy, with orange hint on it. Adorably cute. I took a few shots but I ... read more

I skipped the dive yesterday simply because I was a wuzz: I didn’t want to drive and I didn’t want the cold. Steve said to me: I bet You the Girlz are going to find 8 dworfs and you are going to miss it. And gave me the “Kovacs” look. I couldn’t wait till they get out of the water to find out what they saw: Almost exactly that: Not 8 but 6, plus 2 of my Nodosas between other interesting critters. Ah? Foggies? Yeah Froggies every where. Where? Every where!!!! Ahhrrr I couldn’t wait to go find them the next day. I made sure I got all the directions right. Got to the bridge way before time with all my equipment double checked and got in the water confident I was going to find them. ... read more

HT was at 6 pm I was going to have a late drive back home. I dove with Deb’s 100 cc that I like so much. I started the dive looking for the B. Nodosa and the black seahorse with pink horns. Viz was low and particulated. I found a couple of “Mena” shrimp with curly tale. One sand color and pics are a blotch and another dark color like the one I saw back in January. I needed the mindset for it so left it behind and I moved on. I found a very cooperative Bridge Mimic Octo with stripes on the legs. I had lots of fun with it for a while. Then I found an Orangina but I was having trouble focusing because of the surge. On my way out I saw a ... read more

Steve and I did two dives today. The first dive we did 1 hr and 20 min. SK found a jaw fish he has never seen before and made me take an ID shot to show around. Now we think is a moustache Jawfish but not confirmed yet. Then I found a bunch of white skeleton shrimp very pregnant and tried to shoot some camouflaged shrimp but the photos are ugly. In the second dive I took Deb, Linda and Diane straight to the area where I saw the Nodosa two dives ago. I was lucky enough to find it. Maybe I just had fresh eyes. So cool. It has a lot of potential to use creative lighting with it. While Deb was shooting it I found more pregnant skeleton and the shrimp with curly tale. ... read more