Diving Key Largo

My brother Michael and I started our day bright and early, meeting at his hotel at 7am for our ride down to Key Largo. It was a perfect day for diving - sunny, no wind, no current, small group. We had a thirty minute boat ride out to our first site which was at the Christ of the Abyss. It is a bronze statue that was placed out in the reef in 1965. It has a pretty interesting story - read more about it here. We had to have our photos with it of course (aside - thanks to my roommate for letting me borrow her amazing underwater camera!!), but once we did that we were pleased to find that the surrounding reef is really nice with lots soft corals and finger reef formations. We had an hour of diving there and then moved to another reef nearby called Dry Rocks. Again lots of soft corals but this site had more fish. We saw quite a few barracuda (including 5 little ones about a foot long prowling around together), a goliath grouper and schools of others. A great morning of diving! For more photos see Michael's Fotki.
No big plans yet for tomorrow but I'm sure we'll find something exciting to do....