i went to key largo today with the hoes and their friends, two retired plastic surgeons who spend most of their days underwater with their matching D200s, trying to get nice pictures.
it was nice! the highlight? a goliath grouper on the bentwood wreck.
i'd never seen one before. this fishy was huuuuuge. huge! according to the internets, they grow up to 680 lbs and can be seven feet long. !!! i have noo idea how big this one was, but BIG. very cool. he swam away from us, then went and hid under a ledge, and i spotted him again and pointed him out to the photographer dude. he got scared off again, went into the wreck. at which point we officially lost him. but, oh, it was neat. :)
First encounters with GG are always fun. You friends got a good shot. Glad you had a good trip. I like the Keys but it makes a three day trip for me since I so far north. Tom
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!"