Reef
Report
Saturday, October 31
End of Season BBQ at Blue Heron Bridge
Unlike last
year, a beautiful sunny day with a light
breeze and warm temperatures awaited us for
our annual BBQ and picnic at the Blue Heron
Bridge. Seas less than 1', visibility 30'
depth 17, water temp 82. Sightings included
spotted eagle ray, sharp tailed eel,
numerous lobsters, clouds of minnows,
scorpionfish, arrow crabs, stone crab,
scrawled filefish, numerous cushion sea
stars, nine-arm starfish, barracuda, moon
jellies, parrotfish, doctorfish, queen
angelfish, cowfish, schooling Atlantic
spadefish, hogfish.
--
Active Divers Safety Officer Rachel Davis |
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East
Side, West Side... All Around the Bridge
We have videos from all around the bridge on
Saturday. Enjoy this video from Rachel Davis
of sights from the West side: |
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| Blue Heron
Bridge West Side - video by Rachel
Davis. |
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this video from Lori Woeltjen of the East
side: |
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| Blue Heron
Bridge East Side - video by Lori Woeltjen |
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| A
beautiful white-spotted filefish on French
Reef on November 1st. Photo by Amaury
Cruz. |
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Reef
Report
Sunday,
November 1
Key Largo with Island Ventures
Dive 1: French Reef
Christmas Tree -Seas 1-2, visibility 35
feet. Large baracuda, large blue parrot
fish, schooling yellow tails, moray eels,
glass sweepers in swim through.
Dive 2: French Reef
Turtle Ledge-Seas 1, visibility 35 feet.
Large lobster, schooling grunts, hog snapper
and colorful parrot fish.
-- Active Divers Safety Officer Daryl
Johnson |
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| Al Menendez
(left) enjoys French Reef. Island Ventures
(right) our new charter boat has gotten
great reviews from members. Photos by Dan
Baeza. |
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| Enjoy this
video of French Reef from November 1st by
Amaury Cruz. |
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| Amaury Cruz
(left) doing what he loves - diving and
taking amazing photographs. Thank you for
sharing all your wonderful photos and
videos with our members, Amaury! Smooth
trunkfish (right) on French Reef. Photos
by Rodolfo Lopez. |
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| Active
Divers Fall BBQ
By Lenora
Bach
Active Divers Fall Season End to the Bar B
Que was held at Phil Foster Park,
a/k/a Blue Heron Bridge on Halloween
Day, October 31, 2020. We had 35 members
attend, with fifteen
divers coming bright and early to dive the
bridge.
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Thanks to our local dive
shops who generously donated raffle
prizes!
Austin's
Dive Center (left)
donated dive equipment, gift cards and
T-shirts. Austin's is located at 10525 S.
Dixie Hwy., Miami, FL 33156.
(888)-665-0636, info@austinsdiving.com, open:
Mon-Sat 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
Force E
Dive Center (right)
donated dry bags, mesh bags, and other
items. Force E has 3 dive shops in
Boca Raton, West Palm Beach and Pompano
Beach since 1976. They offer Retail,
Service, Fills, Instruction, and Dive
Trips. Boca Raton - (561)
368-0555, Pompano Beach - (954)
943-3483, Riviera Beach - (561)
845-2333, info@force-e.com. |
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Get on the
Waitlist for our Final Dives!
You
can be placed on the wait list for any sold
out dives. We frequently have divers cancel,
and being on the wait list could earn you a
spot on the dive, even up to the day before.
Also if you need to cancel a dive for any
reason, please let us know with as much
notice as possible because we often have a
wait list of people eager to dive. |
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| NOVEMBER
7 DIVE CANCELLED! |
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Saturday,
November 7
Boynton Beach - ADVANCED
Loggerhead
Charters
DUE
TO THE IMPENDING TROPICAL STORM,
THIS DIVE HAS BEEN CANCELLED! |
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Sunday,
Nov. 15
Key Largo
Island
Ventures
Check
in at 12:00 noon. Charters can
take us off the beaten path.
Members-Only Charter
SOLD
OUT!
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Saturday,
Nov. 21
Black Water Drift ADVANCED
Walkers
Dive Charters
Check
in at 6:30 p.m. See alien life!
SOLD
OUT! |
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