Late December, we joined thousands of other Canadian "snowbirds" heading south for part of the winter, this time to central and southern Florida. For the first few days we didn't escape the cold at all, wearing our canadian winter jackets on the dive boat off-shore from Key Largo, the sea warmer than the air temperature ! Apart from the first dive, the remaining four were great. Every dive location seems to operate in different ways, and this time, Heather and I were able to do our own thing once we had left the boat, exploring at our own pace. For the first time in our diving careers, we were able to look and appreciate the life on the coral reefs at our own pace. The dives were reasonably shallow on Molasses Reef, a maximum of 40 feet, but the fish life was awesome and plentiful. We had bottlenose dolphins swim past the dive boat, a nurse shark and hawsbill turtle sighting underwater, and numerous barracuda, along with plentiful reef fish.