Training Day
St. Patrick's day. We took Alex and Jill to Key Largo to take a scuba refresher course as the last time they had been diving was several years ago. They started early in the morning while Brenda and I had breakfast at Doc's in key Largo. Great local eatery. Ordered breakfast and 2 minutes later it was in front of us. After that Brenda and I went over to the Holiday Inn to watch Alex and Jill do their training. They seemed to enjoy it and were looking forward to the dives in the afternoon. We then went over to Diver's World outlet and browsed a bit. Lunch came next at another local eatery right beside the waterfront where our boat was going to depart. Unfortunately they weren't serving breakfast until 12 and it was 11:30 so we had another breakfast.
The boat left at one so we piled in for the trip out to the reef. While Jill, Alex and I went out to the reef, Brenda took a glass bottomed boat out. While we only dived in about 20 to 25 feet of water, Alex and Jill saw lots of stuff - moray eel, spotted eel, nurse shark and lots of fish. Jill said the diving was better than the area they took her to when she was in Australia, which surprised me. However this is a protected park and the fish are quite abundant.
When we returned home we decided to stop at Key Fisheries and pick up some fish to cook at home. Brenda bought some stone crab claws (absolutely delicious), some Maui maui and some shrimp. Alex and Jill cooked up the dinner with a little salad and it was a great meal. BTW, Key Fisheries is a great place to go for a meal also - try the Key Lime Scallops.
The diving was great! It was cool to see all the different fish - but I was glad not to see the entire body of the moray eel, and just the head poking through the rocks. I think that would have spooked me!
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