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Fantastic photos I have done some snorkling on our Great Barrier Reef looks very similar it must have been a fantastic experience.

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Quote: Those lobster sure are hard to catch though. I prefer throwing a line in teh water and sitting back with a beer in my hand.

I used to do that for crabs. Lobster are easy to catch if you know how to.

And the single stripped fish are called Yellow Tail Snapper. The other more blue and yellow stripped fish is a Key West Grunt.

Last edited by Sandy02 at 09-Jan-2005 16:36

Ferret, there is two of you?

yeaa-aahh there are two of us :88)...ferret I wonder if they make dive suits in our size

Very nice shots bonke, I recognize the striped ones from the national aquarium...

Goodness ! If I ever do get certified ( ) I'll of course have to take a dive partener, for more reasons than just one if I take a camera down with me .

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Really Super Photos.





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what a vacation!!!.......good thing you didn't watch that new movie OPEN WATER, it's going to take me a lot longer to get the nerve to dive

i wish i could dive in water that clear. the lake i dive in is all murky.
great pictures!

Yeah on the lobster. Went night diving in KW (we return there annually for vacations - my dad lived there for a couple years - lucky years for me). Those lobster sure are hard to catch though. I prefer throwing a line in teh water and sitting back with a beer in my hand. Then just drop them off at the marina for some good eats. That was fresh! I think it was the Bight Marina if I'm not mistaken.

Love KW. Awesome fun for diving - that's where I learned - and nighttime too!!

Those pics are cool. Nurse sharks are everywhere down there. I went on a 90' wreck that was very cool. Saw a couple huge, HUGE, jewfish. Little unsettling really, when you look down and what appears to be the sea-bottom, starts moving!

Ah, they were talking about Jewfish, politically known as a Golieth Grouper. Yeah, those suckers get about 400 pounds or so, but personally, you can run into one on coral heads going 15' deep. When I dive I usually go for lobster or something of the sort.

Ferret, there is two of you? Oh my Get your certification, to. I wish I had done it way sooner.

Sandy, the Cayman was my first wreck dive ever and I wasn't too impressed by it either, they told us there was a chance to see some really big groupers of about 6-8 feet, but unfortunately we only saw some tiny ones. the next wreckdive I'll do will be a bit more planned.

Cayman Salvage isn't all that great, I suggest next time you go, go to the Bush or Looe Key, its absolutly beautiful

Bonke!!!

*is insanely insanely jealous*

I snorkled out in Key West a couple years ago, and even that was incredible.

*drags her twin off to get SCUBA certified*
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Hey all,

Yesterday I came back from my 2 week vacation in Floriday where me and my wife did some diving at Key west. Just before we went there we bought a camera case for our digital camera, which allowed me to take quite a few photos while being in the deep Here is a small selection of those photos:

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heh, I had no idea how those fish were called, but there were many of them and easy to photograph Whether they taste good I have no opinion on, as I don't like fish (to eat) at all, living and swimming ones I do like

The diving locations we went to from Key west were called Marker 1, nine foot stake and the Cayman Salvage master wreck. We used Southpoint divers as our dive guides. In general it was absolutely great, though the water was a little bit chilly for th 45 minute dives.

Those are our Key West Grunts ^_^ Very good eating fried (I lived in KW for two years, and I'm just a hop, skip and jump away now) Where were you diving? Doesn't look like Looe Key or the American Shoal (where I frequent), but those yellow tail look yummy ^_^

Thats a nice picture of that nurse shark ^_~

You're really enthralled by grunts, aren't you?

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WOW..and wow this is really nice photos.
Nice pic of the shark .
I wish i could dive as well..maybe i will take some lessons
One word for this....awsome

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Beautiful! I especially love the coral (or whatever it is), the purple is just stunning.

Steph

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and the last one (of this series)

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