August 2008

Hey, we’re finally back on board Devante’s Dream. For this trip we have Eric Sr. Elizabeth and her friend Kerri. We arrived Monday afternoon August 4th after spending the day in Key Largo snorkeling Grecian Rocks and French Reef.

Kerri did great her first time in the water with a snorkel and mask, especially since we stopped at the “bumpy” reef for the first stop (French) then we moved to the quieter Grecian Rocks reef which is very shallow but had good coral and fish.

The day before Elizabeth and I dove on the wrecks Duane and Speigel Grove, well actually just the Speigel Grove, we could not dive the Duane due to the ripping currents, not that we didn’t try. The Speigel Grove was awesome though. We made some swim throughs of the main hull and circled the entire superstructure.

Earlier in the week Elizabeth and I dove out of Boca Inlet on two wrecks, the Ancient Mariner and Sea Emperor. We also hunted bugs (lobster) on the reef and did a night dive. Elizabeth got her Advanced Open Water Certification on the night dive. She now has more than 30 dives and is an excellent diver.

So today, Tuesday, we provisioned and got the boat ready. When we were finally done at 1400 it was too late to leave for Bahia Honda and there are some T-Storms along the shore so we are going to wait until Wed AM to depart. Besides we are kinda tired and can use the rest. There’s no rush.

Our plan is to snorkel/dive Looe Key and stay overnight for two nights in Bahia Honda harbor, which is redundant since Bahia Honda means Deep Bay in Spanish.