I'm slack. It's been a month since I came home and I've just got around to sorting my photos from diving Key Largo. Just the one day of diving - 4 shallow, easy dives, fabulous for fish and soft coral in particular, with some other features like big morays, nurse sharks and spotted eagle rays - no photos of the bigguns I'm afraid, although I got some on film, including some big midnight blue parrotfish which its a shame I didn't get in stills.
I met a lovely woman and her 15 year old son, who had just completed his open water certification and was on his first fun dives. Turned out they were staying at the Hampton Inn and leaving next day so they kindly gave me a lift back from diving as well as back to Miami airport the following day. We had dinner together and I very much enjoyed their company and was very impressed with what a polite and well educated young man Aidan proved himself to be.
The manatee eluded me for the entire stay, fronting up on this day as well according to Dianna at the front desk, who drove me to the dive shop when my taxi didn't show and returned to find reports from other guests of the manatee socialising in the bay. That was really my only disappointment, having the trip salvaged by my day of diving and meeting the lovely Kristen and Aidan.
Dive sites were Eagle Ray Alley, Permanent Ledge, Snappers Ledge and The Aquarium. I missed out on the famous wreck dives for which Key Largo is known, which were booked the previous day but cancelled for weather. Alas, it seems I will have to return.
