April 5, 2008 Lantana, FL

Greetings All!

Saturday April 5 finds the Video Dude and dive buddies Donna, Heather and Worth aboard "Starfish Enterprise" headed out for a couple of nice drift dives. Seas were in the constant 3-5ft range with an occasional 6-footer thrown in for fun.

Our first dive took us to "Boynton Ledge", a very nice reef with a wide variety of animal life. Within 30 seconds of dropping down we ran into a sea turtle! I followed it for a bit with the camera then found some nice white-spotted filefish, a scorpionfish, a midnight parrotfish, a lobster and a huge green moray! We also got to witness a barrel sponge spawning, something I had heard about but never seen.


The second drift dive was on "Gazebo Reef", another beautiful spot for a variety of animals. Shot video of a burrfish, a spotted moray, two schools of spadefish, blue angelfish, and 4 or 5 more barrel sponges spawning. The sight of the sponges spawning was sooo neat! I think the reefs in Palm Beach County are in much better condition than Broward County (just my opinion of course!).


Another day of diving and comraderie you can only find in Paradise!

The Video Dude