Drift Diving at Jupiter Beach

We went to the Saturday evening church service, which left Randy free to go on a dive on Sunday. He had to get up around 4 am to do that, and because I wanted to use the car, I had to get up, too! I drove him over to the dive shop where he met up with Jose, Brooke and David. They carpooled over to Jupiter Beach and joined about a dozen other divers on a boat. This was a drift dive, which means the boat takes them out and the current brings them back. It was a perfect diving day - the skys was clear, the weather was nice, and the water was pleasantly warm. Visibility was around 70 feet which meant it was easy to see the groups of little fish swimming around. 

And larger fish too, like the beautiful angel fish. 

A mid-size nurse shark swam close enough for a photo-op.

Jose and Brooke were hunting for lobsters, but Randy and David were the only ones who found one. It was a huge lobster and would have made a good catch, but they didn't have hunting licenses and couldn't get Jose's attention, so the lobster avoided the pot another day.

They also spotted several moray eels, ranging from a tiny one the size of a finger, to one as big as a leg.  

They got in two good dives before it was time to quit.

And somewhere along the way they had lunch at Square Grouper bar.  Seems like a nice place!