2/23/08 Neptune Memorial Reef

Saturday morning I made the maiden voyage of the new Jupiter 38. With twin 350 V8 Yamaha's, it will do 55 mph. Probably a little less with dive gear. Jody and David made the first drop on the Sheri Lynn and scootered to the Rio Miami and Dema Trader.

































Leya and I went to the new Neptune Memorial Reef to check it out and give her some scooter time. After reading a bit about it on the website, it sounded a little too cheesy. We dropped on the East buoy and there was nothing there. We scootered to the West buoy and with a combination of "follow the fish" and look for the white sand, we found the reef after 7 minutes.



It was much bigger than I expected and made for an interesting dive. As with all new life, there isn't much growth yet, but it will come with time. The lion already had the purple eggs of a Sargent Major on its side. Leya was posing for a shot. A Southern Stingray alway swam by in the distance and we followed him around for a bit. Leya was having an issue getting the tow cable just right so the scooter would pull her level instead of up or down.




The two column corridors were a nice feature the concrete slabs are decorated with fake corals and starfish. There was a school of grunts, French Angelfish, Plain Filefish.