 | | Stuck in Key Largo! I'm driving down a few days ahead of Veronica and Chris from West Palm Beach to check out the keys. A boat is going under the bridge...
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 | | The final stretch to Key West! The keys are a couple of hours long driving wise. It's not what i thought it would be, but i loved it!
Key West, FL
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 | | I think this is the sourth end of 7-mile bridge, but i could be wrong. This could be where in a few minutes i get soaked going thru a thunderstorm with the convertible top down. That sucked... 14 minutes of pain- that's how big the water drops were. And everyone goes 1/2 speed because they can't see, and there's no place to pull over. I spent the next few days trying to dry out the car : )
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 | | One of the things i wanted to do was check out my old school. On my first day to school we were being driven into campus, and the driver said the dorms were nice. Unless you happen to be unlucky (and a guy) and get assigned here, Robert's Hall. Yeah.. the 2nd floor window in the shade would be mine for the next year!
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 | | I'm not sure how it happened but FIT has gotten a big collection of palm trees from around the world in the 'garden'. A spooky place to walk a night that's for sure...
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 | | Ahh, good old 6206. Our communal mailbox!
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 | | The science tower in the background, computer lab in the glass...
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 | | A mostly unknown tunnel my freshman year, it leads to the university apts on the other side where i spend my 2nd year.
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 | | If you're dying to know the layout of the campus..
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 | | The regular computer labs, mostly x86 stuff. I'd find the sparc room later on in my freshman year.
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 | | I see you! It was during summer break and i got a few funny looks wandering around campus (with a camera) when the place was devoid of students.
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 | | I hated chemistry...
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 | | Nerd central. The VAX terminal room in the corner... it housed us geeks telneting to the various text based BBS's, MUDs, and other sundry bits.
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 | | Yeah, it's not a big school. 2000 undergrads or so. You can see most of the academic buildings here (except the science tower and the engineering building)
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 | | Looking thru the crack in the science tower toward Robert's Hall over campus.
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 | | I'm not entirely sure what this is but the school has expanded since i was there in 92-94.
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 | | The 5th floor, physics central. Some grad students were looking at me funny here. But if you act like you belong hardly anyone says anything.
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 | | new building of some sort...
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 | | The road leading thru/next to campus.
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 | | More campus shots..
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 | | Lecture hall where i spent my 18-19 year days.
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 | | Aeronautical building lecture hall.
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 | | More aero building stuff.
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 | | The registration building. Each quarter we'd line up to signup for classes. In person w/ a counselor! The web didn't exist yet.
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 | | Moseying over to the student apts
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 | | Big paint
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 | | I think i was just spotted by security.. my old apt is on the 2nd floor on the left.
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 | | This frat-boy paint/logo on the ground is a big source of... issues between frats. If you wanted to piss off whoever they are just splash your colors on it.
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 | | The coed dorms. WTF wasn't i put here? Shit..i could've learned a lot more.
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 | | Back to my dorm and the scene of 3am tennis matches.
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 | | The 1st floor of my dorm. The building had a special funk to it.
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 | | Florida Tech admin entrance.
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 | | The church next to the dorm. I had a bit of fun with the pastor using fireworks... ask me sometime : )
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 | | Scene of agricultural purchases of fireworks. They even made me sign something that they were for farm use!
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 | | Like Miami is hard to find.
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 | | July 4th festivities in West Palm. Chris and I would light off some fireworks in a parking lot somewhere...
Boyton Beach, FL
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 | | Lunch on the way to the keys!
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 | | West Palm area, scene of our lunch.
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 | | Heading down the keys with Chris and Veronica.
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 | | The start/end of A1A!!!
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 | | Downtown Key West!
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 | | We made it to the bottom of the USA!
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 | | Some plaques or something at the civilian south end of florida
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 | | Dammit Chris...
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 | | Back to our 'hood where we stayed..
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 | | The start of something perhaps?
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 | | Chris covering up
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 | | Veronica waiting for the boys to do whatever they're doing...
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 | | Here's me swimming through a bunch of fishes. From my point of view.
Marathon, FL
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 | | Some midnight parrotfish cruising.
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 | | A coral head rising up from the sands.
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 | | Some staghorn coral, slightly out of focus.
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 | | French Angelfish. View courtesy of Capt Banny and his Never Enough Charters.
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 | | A bunch of something or other nibbling about for lunch
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 | | That'd be me with a conch (pronounced 'konk' to you land lubbers)
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 | | Some barrel sponges.
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 | | A shitty picture but it's the only one i have of a the ray
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 | | A conch dragging itself slowly across the sand...
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 | | So here i'm set to dive at one of the best sites in florida i'm told. And the recommended dive boat is taking some students out. Crap... that generall means shitty diving. So here's a 14yr kid working on his open water.
Looe Key, FL
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 | | Chow time for a parrot fish?
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 | | A barracuda chillin'
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 | | Instructor with his to-be certified diver
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 | | Trumpet fish in stalker mode behind a fan.
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 | | Parrotfish swimming past a barrel sponge
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 | | A funny looking thing cruising by..
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 | | A green moray trying to find food
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 | | More of the moray
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 | | A group-ish fish chillin' out
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 | | Fans swaying in the water
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 | | Somehow this guy escaped the dinner crowd..
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 | | A fishie just sitting and hanging about.
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 | | Somesort of fishie in the algea rocks
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 | | Non-pelagics doing their thing under the cover of rocks.
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 | | A plain-o angelfish trying to get away from me. Squirrel fish doing acrobatics in front of him.
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 | | A bunch of schooling fish
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 | | a bottom fishie
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 | | So being a single diver i got stuck with a random. Meet... cruiseship diver. Mr Hoover. Ugh. Didn't know what buoyancy is. Good thing the diving sucked, otherwise i'd feel like i missed out on something.
Key West, FL
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 | | That's me.
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 | | Fatboy trying to be athletic or something for the camera.
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 | | Fatboy with conch.
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 | | Fellow divers at 120 ft. Compare this 35mm MX10 picture with the digital photo below.
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | That's me again at the prop.
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | Artsy view of the props
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | To confirm where we are
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | Probably the best photo this camera ever took. I never really learned how to use it...
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | A guy with a digital camera (pics below)
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | So we dove the wreck just weeks after it accidentally sank. They were going to have a big ceromony, etc to sink it. But shit happens and it went down a day early, on its side. I found this written on the hull, i think it was the schedule they wanted..
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 | | The deck, note there's no growth, etc.
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | Some folks chilling before heading up.
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | I think this guy was my dive buddy, note that alge has already grown on the sunny parts of the ship.
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | Heading up the line looking down
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 | | There were a lot of us on the line
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | A digital shot of the folks swimming about
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 | | Inside the hold of the ship. Not really inside, but that's me at the top in the distance checking out my bubbles as they puddle up on the ship.
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | A school of divers swimming about the wreck
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 | | Artsy shot
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 | | Another parting shot of the ship
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | More folks swimming about
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | The prop. Compare this shot to mine above.
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | Me looking at someone else taking my picture
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | Me again on the ship
Speigel Grove, Key Largo, FL
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 | | More folks swimming about
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 | | Our second dive of the day was on a reef, i would've preferred the ship.
Key Largo, FL
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 | | Bubbles percolating through the coral as divers go through a swim-thru.
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 | | Swim-thru.
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 | | The base of a coral head.
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 | | Coral scene with fish and bubbles.
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 | | So here Chris and I are, signed up with Splashdown Divers out of Boynton Beach. It's a deep drift dive, and we could go on air longer than we should. Chris didn't have a computer : )
West Palm Beach, FL
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 | | One of the better shots with my camera, i didn't get the thresher 5 ft behind chris : (
West Palm Beach, FL
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 | | More barrel...
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