[SlowWhite]

Hell ya just finished getting my DSL hooked up so now can talk to you guys at night when ever I want.

As for FLORIDA I'm loving every minute of it. Last Saturday we took the day off and Mike and his family and me went to the beach and went Body surfing and Boogie boarding for the first time since I've been here. I also dropped off my scuba diving equipment at a shop to get re-certified so I can go out diving. ($50 for 2 tank Dives = how I'm going to spend almost every day off)

Anyrate I had some morning workin yesterday and afterwards went out snorkeling with Mike and his family at a different beach which we were told has some Reefs, etc. And this being Mikes first time Snorkeling I wanted him to see something cool and reefs are where it's at. Well turns out we got more then we were bargaining for.

We started off by seeing the blue fish from FINDING NEMO. And a bunch of other species or fish, (cow fish, a puffer, etc, etc typical fish in the ocean)

And after going back in to get some defogger for our masks I thought it would be fun to put on my gloves and play with the wild life. After about 5 minutes of swimming around the reef trying to catch these fish and what not. I wanted to grap a stick to see if there was anything in a hole in this reef so I noticed this Grey long stick looking thing about 2.5-3 feet in length mixed in with some floating seaweed. So as I'm going down to (10feet depth) to pick it up just as I'm about to grab it I notice and out line in the sand. The damn thing wasn't a Stick after all it was a 3.5 Foot Wing span Sting Ray. Lucky for me I didn't grap the stick cause if I had more then likely I would have gotten stuck with 1 of it's 2 Venomous Stickers that are attached to it's tail.

Anyways so I show it to Mike and use my fin to scare it into moving and we chase it for a while. Run out of energy and start to head back to the Reef/Shoreline. As we turn around. I notice a Large Dark Shadow in the not to far off distance swimming. Scares the living Shit out me. And I grab mike which Scares the living shit out of him.

We start swimming towards the Reef/Shorline And I'm keeping and Eye on this shadow. Turns out it was a Manity (endangered speacies) about 10 in length. After realizing there was no danger Mike and I swim up to. Or should I say it swam somewhat towards us. didn't even Care we were there. Came up right next to us for Air and then went under and back on it's way. I got to touch it. Was pretty cool. Didn't think I'd see one out in the ocean. As I always thought there more an Inlet type species. None the less cool and unexpected. I can't wait to get my Diving Gear back so I can really have some fun.