LiveToScuba

I finally got around to importing our posts from 2003 from our old Xoops blog. It was fun to read through those old posts re-live our early days of scuba diving. We haven’t taught much lately, I miss it. Maybe we’ll hang out a shingle and start taking students again.

Rebecca and finally put life aside on Sunday and went diving again. We ended up doing a shore dive at the spot that almost killed us when we first moved here, Dania Beach. We actually saw at least two different species of fish we have not seen before before, shore diving in Ft. Lauderdale. Need to dig out our Fish ID book and look them up. I also had the pleasure of having my finger cleaned at a Cleaner Shrimp station. They were out in force as we also saw a Trigger fish getting its tail cleaned as well. It’s definately lobster season. There were quite a few disembodied lobster antenna laying about. We cannot go that long without diving again.

We have a new look too. Hopefully it will inspire us to start posting again.

If you check out our gallery, you’ll notice it lacking in pictures. We don’t have a proper strobe setup for our Nikon 4300 so I have a bunch of underwater pictures which need their color corrected. I finally found a decent article on color correction at the ScubaBoard, Overall Color Correction for Underwater Photographs Using Photoshop.

Rebecca and I spent Saturday down in Florida City. We were headed to the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park but US 1 was at a complete standstill, so we turned around and headed to Biscayne National Park in Florida City. We missed the Scuba and Snorkel tours so we grabbed a canoe and paddled around the bay. Relaxing. Afterwards, we headed to El Toro Taco, probably the most authentic Mexican food you’re going to find without going to Mexico. We arrived just in time to see the mariachi band that walks around to the local businesses and plays for tips (See Picture).

Rebecca and I finally went diving for the first time this year. How sad is that? Our gills were completely dry. The conditions were crappy but the crew at Jim Abernathy’s Scuba Adventures always guarantees a fun time. We had an afternoon wreck dive at The Corridor, a string of 3 wrecks. The damage from last year’s hurricanes was evident from the twisted hulls. The viz was a little murky and there was some serious chop but I saw more Barracuda on this trip than all my previous trips combined. There were hundreds. It was surreal to see that many, hanging motionless in the surge staring at you. There were two highlights, the first was the shark, which we later identified via our hazy photo, as a Lemon Shark and the Seargent Major, which we’ve never seen before. Read the rest of this entry »