Sharks, Barracuda, Scorpionfish - click link for YouTube video
Hooray! On March 15th I finally got my boat back to the house. A brand new dock and a repaired lift. A pretty sight indeed and just in time for a great day for diving on March 18th. It is so much easier to head out from my home on the Atlantic side than hauling all the gear and boating from Mangrove Marina on the Bayside. Its only 15 minutes to Molasses from my house compared to 1.25 hours from Mangrove.
We were greeted with flat seas at Molasses but a very strong current. I watched a snorkeler drift the length of his boat in a matter of seconds. We did not feel comfortable in our 1st location on the reef, so we move to the far NE side where the current was a bit less ferocious.
This was a deep dive and we were able to get some protection from the current in the sand channels. But we still were careful to swim up current so we could drift back to the boat. For our second dive we went back to mid reef and by then the current had subsided.
A well camouflaged scorpionfish swims off. A large barracuda below the boat.
