Apr 28 - May 5th 2012 West Palm Beach

Stacy and I travelled to West Palm Beach with Dennis and Susan Green. We stayed at the Marriott Oceana Palms, on Singer Island, in room 1173. The weather was raining and windy the first few days but improved as the week went on.

Apr 30th: Shore dove the Phil Foster Park Bridge. (See dive log for details, but this was a shallow dive with amazing amounts of sea life. Large schools of fish and everything from Peacock flounder to lobster)

May 2nd:  Purchased a full wet suit and Go Pro camera at diver Direct.

May 3rd: We took a trip to the Everglades May 3rd to Swamp Billies. Saw gators on the way there. Also saw them catch a live wild gator that had come to close to their boat dock.

May 4th: Dove with Little Deeper. Did Flower Garden and 5th Window. Dive crew was good. Boat was under stocked with weights. Did not provide a dive guide but had someone on board volunteer to do that.
Used Force E dive shop just over the bridge from Singer Island for local diving info and signed up there to do the dive with Little Deeper. They are good to work with. Bought a hood for warmth there.
Boat dives were $65 + tanks and any gear.
The owner of the Little Deeper knows Sean Payne that taught the kids on their certification.

Diving in Palm Beach is surprisingly good. It has the warm water of the Caribbean.The visibility is good. There is some coral and tons of fish life. It is mostly drift diving from boats.

Food: Had a really good dinner on Singer Island at the Sail Fish Marina. Everyone liked dinner. I had crazy good beer battered shrimp. Ended up going here again. Cheese Cake Factory was good. Little grocer on Singer Island, Grator Gator had a decent deli in the back.

Misc: Stacy got pretty sunburned early on because the day was overcast and windy and she didn't feel the burn coming on.