Great weekend for diving.

 

Shaw's Cove/ Miller's Reef (off of Woods Cove)/ Miller's Reef

Surf:  ankle slappers/ 0-2'/ 0-2'

Tide:  Low/ Low/ Low

Swell:  0/0/0

Surge:  Moderate/ Minimal/ Minimal

Viz:  Murky 10'/ Murky 10/ 15-20' on East side of Reef to Murky 10' on West end of Reef

Temps:  50' outer reef to 52 inner reef/ 54'/ 54'

Depths:  40'/ 52'/ 38'

BT:  61'/ 57'/ 61'

 

Shaw's Cove:  Decided to make an early morning dive to play with my strobe that I haven't used in more than two years, maybe three.  Reason:  I find it quite cumbersome.  Due to my unhappiness with 'shadows' in my pictures and not knowing why or what was causing them, I decided it was time to start using my strobe again to see if that would 'solve' my probelm.  Whalah!  It did.  I did alot of manipulations with my strobe, and I think I have finally found a way that works for me.  The downside is that it is still awkward to take beach diving! 

 

Surge was up, but managed to get some good shots of nudi's in the Arch as well as at the statue of Shelly before it was time to get out of dodge.  Lots of classes out today, but fortunately, I had most of the reef to myself before viz got stirred up.

 

Miller's Reef:  Met up with SOCDC for their 10:00am dive.  Decision was to dive Wood's.  Ah!  One of my favorite sites!!!  Since I have dove Miller's Reef in the past (accidently) it was our goal to find the reef once again.  We took advantage of Jeff's maps and low tide to make our estimations.  One thing we forgot to do, was to take in account that it was low tide re depth.  Rather than finding Miller's Reef between 45-50' of FSW, the backside was in 38' FSW.  Dale Davis was my buddy in which we had a great time exploring this massive reef.  Viz was limited with alot of particulate in the water, none the less, a great dive.

 

Miller's Reef, Sunday:  John came down to make a dive with me today.  In that he has never dove Miller's Reef, we decided to head back.  We weren't disappointed in that viz was alot better today.  We saw all kinds of fish, anemones, bugs, kelp, etc.

 

Jan