Vero Beach Vacation is well underway! We've been here since Wednesday the 8th and have managed to do a FEW things! Wednesday it's self was mostly jet lag day but Keith, Diane and I did make it to the Wednesday night dinner, gospel music hour that evening.
Thursday Jack and I took a driving tour of Hwy 1A1 from the Causeway Bridge (SR 60) to Fort Pierce. We stopped at the local dive shop, Deep 6, first and discussed local beach dive sites and how to tell if it's a good dive day off the Vero Beach sites. Then went and scoped out Pepper State Park where the lobster are enormous. Lobster season ended in March so we will have to wait until our return in the fall months to get to go after those big boys! When we returned home Diane, Jack and I took a refreshing swim in the pool and then had a great BBQ chicken dinner.
Friday was scuba dive day! We went out on the Deep Obsession with Jim Abernathy's Scuba Adventures for a two-tank dive off West Palm Beach. It was everything advertised. Lots of sealife, including a sea turtle, a romoria companion for Jack, and several moray eels 
The seas were to big for my sea bands to compete with and Jack and I were both very sea sick. The currents worked against us and we had to work hard to stay with the reef along the Flower Garden Reef so much so Jack was exhusted after the 1st dive and did not do the second one. I would have skipped the second one but I was to sick to stay on the boat - I had to get back in the water to get any relief. The crew was great and got me rigged up for the second dive and then got be launched into the water. At 55 feet deep I was fine! I didn't take the camera on the second dive, which was at the Breakers Reef - named after the famous West Palm Beach Breakers Hotel that the reef is directly infront of. I wasn't feeling up to finding it, so there are no pictures of the hawksbeak turtle that swam through our school of divers or the batfish that came up out of the sand and "flew" away. While I was diving Jack got a really good start on his suntan.
The seas were to big for my sea bands to compete with and Jack and I were both very sea sick. The currents worked against us and we had to work hard to stay with the reef along the Flower Garden Reef so much so Jack was exhusted after the 1st dive and did not do the second one. I would have skipped the second one but I was to sick to stay on the boat - I had to get back in the water to get any relief. The crew was great and got me rigged up for the second dive and then got be launched into the water. At 55 feet deep I was fine! I didn't take the camera on the second dive, which was at the Breakers Reef - named after the famous West Palm Beach Breakers Hotel that the reef is directly infront of. I wasn't feeling up to finding it, so there are no pictures of the hawksbeak turtle that swam through our school of divers or the batfish that came up out of the sand and "flew" away. While I was diving Jack got a really good start on his suntan.We were a little done when we got off the boat so we rescheduled getting together with the Tews until Saturday! Here's me after a rough day at sea!
I'll post more later!
I'll post more later!
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