Between many days of high winds and J having company, it took until Saturday to get back out diving. Visibility was poor after 3 days of high winds. But the weather was nice - warm, sunny and just 5-6 knot breeze. For our 1st dive we arrived at the Pickle Barrel wreck site just as another boat was leaving the mooring. Immediately upon entry in the water I notice a swimming eel heading toward a hiding spot under a rock. Turned out he joined a nurse shark in that spot. Visibility was diminished which made videoing difficult as it really washed out into the sun. Next up was a Moray eel that had a coral banded shrimp trying to clean its mouth. Perhaps I interrupted the event as the eel did not seem happy. The usual schools of fish were present.
We tried French Reef for our 2nd dive and visibility was probably 15-20’. Very difficult to navigate the reef and find Sand Cave. We were unsuccessful and the dive was less than satisfactory. But it did make us work on navigation skills. It took a couple of tries to come up on the correct mooring as you couldn’t see the boat until you were 10’ under it.
Video of the dive - Youtube link - click below