lore --i moved our discussion to a new topic!!!

fishfood

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Hey Fishfood
lived and met my wife in P-cola. Actually Gulf Breeze across the pond from you. Are you taking about PJC or N.W. Fla. U?
We get back to P-cola about 4 times a year for our scuba addiction. We dove the PeteTide II off of the "Gattago" (A garbage scow masqurading as a dive boat) last summer and ran into a large school of HUGE Queen Angels. Got Family out on Hwy 98.
lore

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Lore - University of West Florida, there has been major road construction up on nine mile by the university and the plans to build are going along great. I just wish i had the money because we have some great ideas for this bar/restaurant.
I'm currently taking scuba lessons through work, they paid for up to advanced open water thru PADI and also bought $500 in gear. I need it because i'm doing monitoring of the oyster reef we are building
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Very cool. I'm cirt'ed through PADI up to Crime Scene Diver. I dive for the Sheriff's Office here in Memphis. Can't see anything in the Mississippi but they got good current flow. What sort of things would you monitor on the Oyster bed? Chems, growth rate, ???
lore - Fecit

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Well we are building a salt marsh and oyster reef next to the 3 mile bridge into Gulf Breeze just across the street from Landry's. I guess we will be monitoring oyster growth, density, as well as fish density and stuff like that. We don't exaclty nkow yet because we are still building the project. Our first step is to grow oysters.
 
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I saw some construction like work in that area last time I was home, about a month ago.
Over the years that has been a popular sight for overnighting tugs and freighters. I hope there is a way of keeping them and the curious out. Of course being that close to Gulf Breeze you may have to put up some anti-UFO nets too.
 

fishfood

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Actually we had huge limestone rocks dumped in mounds where the oysters will be placed. They are at the 6ft depth contour line at high tide and peak out of the water about 1 to 2 feet at high tide. ( it doesn't look the best a low tied.) These rocks will be for the oysters to grow and as a breakwater for the plants we need to put in to create a salt marsh. It may not look the best to many people but is will be a great system to filter runoff and a great nursry for fish. We also are going to remove all the exotic species of plants and plant natives in there place.
 
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I wish I could help with the bar idea. I think it is a good one. But I just bought a ten acre farm in the middle of a wooded nowhere. A life long dream.
You think a reef tank can suck down money.....!
Well the best part of it so far is that the only thing my new neighbors have ever said to me is MOOOOO!
 
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Something else I noticed last time home. For the first time in 30 years I saw porpoise in Pensacola bay. I was stunned and elated.
 

fishfood

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my aunt lives up in the hills in TN. The parts they live in are a little different. People in the neighborhood (along the dirt road up the mountain) will come out of the house with guns if they see a car driving up they don't know. They still make their moonshine up there and are afraid of outsiders. They built thier house and it is a little on the low tech side for me. It has a nice view of the NC/TN boarder though.
 

fishfood

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yea they are out there. We were out on the boat the other day taking some water samples and passed by a group of them. They even go up into the dirty bayous. I've seen them many times while planting emergant plants along the bayous. We recently planted some 10,000 plants at NAS for erosion control and filtering the chemicals that run off the golf course. I say a bunch over there plus had free blue angle shows every Tuesday morning
 
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