This morning we hit the reef a bit later and the fish were very much awake. The way out along the jetty was pretty turned up, but after heading over to the reef the viz was top notch. We meandered around the reef today alternating between investigating and then scootering onto the next dense reef patch.
Lots of life. A few yellow sting rays, a grouper, lots of pork fish, a nice school of grey angelfish, and magnificent flyby from a large eagle ray. We found our favorite spot on the reef, “the boiler” – a long man made cylinder with cut outs for the fish to swim through
Water temperature was 87 (a bit down from it’s peak). I used the tank backpack sans BCD which was a nice improvement. 2lbs of weight but not needed. None next time!
We both wore leggings to try to avoid as many jellies as possible. The jellyfish were congregated near the beach and fortunately not out on the reef.
The last picture is the one species of hard coral we’ve found. Generally a soft coral dominated reef.
