We filled tanks and went to the outside to dive some of the reef. The spot we chose was about 50' to the sand, with rock formations towering up to about 20'. There were sandy chutes between the rocks, where you could swim through the chutes, though a few narrowing to almost 3'.
We saw several large snapper, a few small nassau grouper, a gag, I think, and assorted smaller fish. I saw no lobster, and no lionfish. There was just a little (almost none) blue green algae, but much of the coral was dead.
After our dive, we looked at some of the reef that came up from 60' to breakers in just a few feet. Even with it calm, I wouldn't have put a boat there unattended for the length of a dive. But, it was pretty spectacular to look at, and we were cold! We decided that was the last dive without our shorties!
Later that afternoon, I got a second dive in, very similar conditions, but a few more chutes, and a few more fish!
We remained anchored in Baker's Bay on Wednesday night.
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