Its summer time again ….
It was really nice day and my girlfriend had the day off, so we took the boat out to the reef to do some snorkeling. We decided to hit the main snorkeling spot since we had only been there once and it was when the water was not really clear. We brought the underwater camera with us. We attached to a mooring buoy as the fury boat was leaving and jumped in.
Sand Key Light House
We had a goal to swim to the tower and check it out but we didn’t make it, The water is shallow for quite awhile and it kind of boring up in there. We snorkel a lot and have snorkeled all over the reef between Key West and the Marquesas Keys. So perhaps stuff that is kind of boring to us would be exciting for someone visiting. Up the shallows its mostly just kind of flat rock with some tangs, surgeon fish and parrot fish scooting about. All the sea life seemed to be in the deeper water around the moorings. Under the moorings there was a huge school of yellow tail snapper, barracuda, mahogany snappers, parrot fish and a bunch of other life.
Surgeon Fish
There was a lot of fish but not a lot of live coral. My girlfriend is all about the live coral and she was kind of disappointed with the area. I am more into viewing the fish and there was a lot of them so I liked it. I would say the area is very good of someone new to snorkeling because in a short distance you can be in really shallow water or deeper water depending on what you are into. Personally I think I found eastern dry rocks more impressive the sand key. Although we only explored a small section of the sanctuary.
