My first year snow birding is different than vacation. Especially spending almost every waking moment renovating a vintage property ( I call it vintage cuz it's in an oceanfront community, otherwise it would just be an old dump). At mile marker 23 on the overseas hwy 1, I am 23 miles no of key west and 5 miles south (or west) of the beautiful looe key reef.
With all the renovating, I did sneak out one nice boat trip to Looe Key, a beautiful marine sanctuary. Generally sort of boring pretty fish trip, this wreck diver was rewarded with the sight of a Volkswagen swimming toward her...the elusive giant grouper......around 300 lbs, it was magnificent. Wow. Sort of scary as it comes floating by. But what a treat..I thought I could catch up, but it's faster than it looks and as fast as it came, it was gone! That sight and the hope of finding lots of go pros on the reef will now keep me vigilant at the reef.
I have my lobster license so I'm looking forward to doing a few lobster trips with capt rob of the "last one" from the Belmar marina.
I'll post some pics when the unit is more finished in a couple of weeks. Keep diving jersey boys...
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