This is the swiss cheese reef located at Lauderdale by the Sea just past Commercial Boulevard at the Datura Ave entrance. I had SD dive down and swim along it so you could have a size reference. It's huge and awesome. Lot's to see but not much in the way of hunting for lunch.
Some coral that caught my eye. Snappity snap.
These are juvenile angelfish. I love that I caught the blue on the rear of the one who tried avoiding me. I got you fucker.
I don't know what this orange fish is and the photo is lousy but I almost drowned chasing him down so it's going up.
What is this?! I can't even believe I got this shot. I just stuck my camera into the hole and took a chance. Blue tang are my favorite and the little blue striped neon one is a huge bonus, but I was trying to get the yellowtailed damselfish. Check out the blue spots! And you can just see a piece of her yellow tail. That is success people...
Not sure what's up with me and feet shots. I was trying to give you an idea of how deep it is but it just looks like I am standing on tiny swiss cheese holes damn it. Yes, that is the dive flag on my ankle. Yes, I am the leader of the pack vroom vroom!
No, seriously, click on this picture and look how tiny the people are. That far. It trips me out sometimes but all said and done I have a snorkel and I float without even trying so I can't justify the fear and end up just chilling out and enjoying the dive.
I swear all I did is remove the excess blue and green tint from the picture. Maybe defined it? I have started taking pictures with the motion setting rather than the underwater setting and once they are loaded I simply remove the overwhelming blue/green tinting myself and the result is a sharp picture. According to my camera underwater things just need the tint to be different but the objects don't move around? I don't know but this is working out fine wouldn't you say? Go ahead. You can say it. Even though I distort some of the pictures, you can say it...
As we were coming in to dive, two scuba divers were coming out. One of them had this EXTREME underwater camera set up with him so of course SD inquires as to if he saw anything while out there. Just friendly banter since we are parked on top of one another and clearly share the same interests. He just drops his camera by the drivers side door (we are parallel parked on the right side of the street, his car in front of ours), gives us a snobby look down his nose, walks all casually to open his trunk and in a really apathetic way tells us no, didn't see anything. I wanted to 1.) jack that sweet camera while he was sitting on the back of his car not even able to see it OR 2.) scream something obscene and punch him in the face. I just smiled super huge and stole his personal space for a moment because I realize that both things would have just confirmed in his mind that we certainly weren't worth his time or energy being all lowly and whatever else pompous a-hole reasoning he had but come on man, get over it. You are at one of the most popular diving areas in southern FL. Yes, you have to share the reef with other people. If you are that high up on the richter scale why aren't you in Dubai constructing your own personal island complete with private reef? Hater. :D
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