Yesterday was a dream day for snorkeling in Key West…the visibility was just spectacular and the wind was three knots. 3 knot wind is not common in winter so I was just in heaven. Well, until around 2pm or so, when it turned to 19 knots and got a little choppy. But the vis remained…even the horizontal vis was just great. I could find other divers so easily just by looking around sometimes.
Great visibility is good for long-range pictures, so if you have a wide angle lens, that’s the time to bring it out.
Coral shrimp in Key West are in danger because the invasive species lionfish are eating them up, supposedly. Although nobody eats the Coral shrimp in Key West because they are so small, they are of course important because they are a part of the natural habitat out on the coral reef.
These marine invertebrates are pretty awesome looking to see in the wild. Look for them on coral, of course, but their super long white antennae make them easy to find if you’re up close to the rocks or coral.
Ok, been living in Key West for five years now, diving a couple times a week for much of it (not the past six months, however) and still can’t get enough of the coral. I could take pictures all day of the same set of coral rocks and never get tired of it.
I recently got an underwater strobe for my camera and can’t wait to dive deep and see how it lights up the dark recesses of coral formations down there.