Johnson’s Sporting Goods Blog

Wow, what a day! First off we had a few problems at the house this morning and left for the dive shop a few minutes late. Then the traffic was very bad to get to the other side of the island, which made us get there an hour late. We had a boat that was reserved just for our group and they were able to wait for use to show up. We were only able to do one tank each instead of the two that we reserved because we were so late. Not a good start, but we did get to dive on a wreck called Willaurie. Here is a  little info on the dive site Willaurie…”The Willaurie Wreck is a 130’ former water barge resting in a semi-sand area surrounded by tongue and groove reef formations. This wreck was intentionally sunk in 1989 as an artificial reef dive site. A large amount of red and orange encrusting corals have attached to the wreck, making it vibrant in color The surrounding reef is made up of a variety of soft and hard corals. Schools of Cubera Snapper, Master fish and Nassau Grouper are seen here” It was a good first dive for everyone to get back in the water and adjust weight etc. There was alot of nice coral and sponge on the boat and the surrounding reef. So even with the rough start to the day we still had fun and look forward to the dives tomorrow. I will post some pics in this post of our dive today, so please open and take a look. Feel free to comment or leave a message for someone in the house.