12.13.08 - Anglin' Pier Reef and Sunkist Reef

Hello everyone.

Saturday, Dec 13th finds the Video Dude and Scuba Goddess Terri aboard "ScubaTyme" heading out to do a couple of nice reefs. This is the first time I have been on this boat and owner Enzo, DM Amanda and Captain Steve made me feel right at home. Seas were calm but the air temp was in the high 50's so I brought a thermos of hot chocolate along!

Dive #1 was on "Anglin' Pier Reef" in 50fsw and we were dropped on it perfectly by Captain Steve. Unfortunately, visibility was only about 20ft or so, water temp was about 70 and there was a pretty good surge going on, so shooting video was a bit challenging to say the least. Still I was able to find an Anenome, High-Hat Drumfish, a Juvenile Trunkfish, and a couple of Lobster (Terri got one). We decide to head up a bit early due to being cold and head for our safety stop and ultimately the boat. After our gear changeover (and a nip of hot chocolate!) we are ready for dive #2.

Dive #2 was on "Sunkist Reef" also in 50-55fsw and again another perfect drop by Captain Steve. Some overall water conditions as on dive #1, so we pretty much took our time looking around and trying to find small critters. Due to poor conditions, small stuff was the most interesting of the day. Overall we saw more Lobster, another High-Hat Drum, a Green Moray, Blue Chromis, 4-eye Butterfly Fish and a couple of Hogfish. Despite poor conditions, it was a great relaxing dive and a fun time spent underwater with the Scuba Goddess!


Diving the day away in Paradise,

The Video Dude