Manatee petting

I lead a trip for the shop to Crystal River, FL to snorkel with the manatee and to get in a couple of dives.  We started the weekend by leaving Atlanta at 7ish PM on Friday night.  We arrived in Homasassa, FL at 2AM, and to make sure I had everything ready for the divers put in a 6AM wake-up call...  Since the cat we are taking for a test drive needed meds, we took it with us.

We met at the dive shop (American Pro Diving) at 7AM Saturday morning and headed to the pier to get onto the pontoon boat for our morning outing.  First stop was King Spring to snorkel with the manatee.  There were tons of manatee & people at the site.

After snorkeling for a while, we donned our gear and dove King Spring

cavern.  It was a nice little dive, nothing special.

We headed back in and broke for lunch.  For lunch we headed back to the hotel and checked on the cat.  We also got some lunch at a local sub shop (not very good) :(

For the afternoon dive, we meet back and the shop and headed to Rainbow River to do a drift dive. 

They took us up the river about 1 mile and dropped us off.  We drifted down

the river for 69 minutes,  This was a fun dive.

The group decided to eat together at the Seagrass.  Food was ok, company was great.

Sunday morning was another early start.  We had to be at the dock at the Seagrass at 7AM to get on the pontoon boat and head up the river to the spring at Homasassa.  The manatee were ok, but not a good as they were at King Spring.