Heading out tomorrow to find dead snook

Reports are coming in of dead snook along the Gulf side of  Florida, so I’ll get the boat loaded this afternoon, charge up the cold boat battery, and head out tomorrow with the camera. This is the biggest freeze since 1989, so I’d better get some fish pictures. Here in Gainesville the temp was 17 degrees last night, a new record. And the tenth night of freezing weather. Not good for coastal fish. Very good, for controlling invasive tropical plants and animals in Florida, such as iguanas and pythons in South Florida.

Tomorrow if the sun is out at mid-day, and I’ve already taken fish pictures, I’ll jump in the water with manatees at the springs, where they’re probably huddled together, numbering more than a hundred. The springs are 72 degrees all year long, which feels toasty in January. I’ll shoot some underwater pics of the manatees, if everything works out.

Stay tuned.