gorgeous! we did an hour or so under the pier at commercial boulevard. it was so great! i don't know how impressed chris was, but (had we not had to get out so he and his friend could get to their hair appts.) i could have stayed there all day. probably on one tank of air, even; as long as we were down there, i only used about 1200 psi. not moving much will do that to ya.
a soapfish, taken in lauderdale-by-the-sea by a guy i don't know! flickr rocks.
there were lots of lookdowns - of course. a couple of big tarpon. seemingly dozens of hovering barracudas. the resident soapfish in that mysterious sandcastle-looking structure. a big crab. and the biggest stingray i've ever seen! he was gorgeous. i was in the sand next to him.. he got a little nervous and raised himself off the sand, then gracefully swam away. i watched him swim until he disappeared.. it was so beautiful.
ooh! and the smallest scorpionfish i've ever seen! he was so cute! like maybe four inches long? i like to have staring contests with scorpionfish, where i get all up in their grill so i can be impressed at how confident they are in their camouflage; they never move. this little guy, though, he moved. someday he'll learn. :)
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
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