Eagle Beach snorkeling - fun and relax for you and your family
Good visibility, several shallow reefs, and a couple of wrecks give snorkelers an array of options. All sites are on the southern, or leeward, coast. Slightly north of Palm Beach, Catalina Bay and Arashi Reef feature brain and star coral, sea fans, parrotfish, angelfish, and an occasional octopus; the 400-foot Antilla shipwreck is impossible to miss. De Palm Slope, off De Palm Island, features magnificent coral as well. Snuba -- Though not affording you the freedom and excitement of scuba, this technology allows you to breathe while descending up to 6.1m (20 ft.) by way of a regulator tethered to a floating tank of compressed air. No experience is necessary; most of the catamaran tours allow passengers the option either before or during the trip to sign up and give it a whirl. On DePalm Island, you can also try Sea Trek, where you don a diving helmet and weighted boots and explore the sea floor; though you won't see much coral, you will see a submerged bus and plane, and can sit for a photo-op at a submerged cafe table. For those who like toys, grab a motorized jet pack and try Power Snorkel; just hold on to your swimsuit with one hand, the jet pack with the other, and pray you don't wind up in Venezuela! Snorkelers: Be forewarned that waves can be choppy at times in some locations. Divers should wear wet suits, especially for deeper dives (the water doesn't always feel like 80°F). The best snorkeling sites are around Malmok Beach and Boca Catalina, where the water is calm and shallow, and visible and kinetic marine life is plentiful. Dive sites stretch along the entire southern, leeward coast. For those who like toys, there's Power Snorkel, which uses motorized jet packs to pull you through the water. Don't expect to see many fish, though, as the noise and bubbles scare them away. Plus, your focus is on not crashing into other swimmers or not losing your swimsuit, rather than on the beautiful corals that you go buzzing past. Even before snorkelers leave the dock of De Palm Island (east of the Jane Sea wreck), overfed blue parrotfish looking for a snack greet them. Though it's tempting to feed them, be warned that their powerful beaks and digestive tracts are designed to munch on rock hard corals, and not doing so is healthy neither for the fish nor the reef, not to mention somewhat risky for your delicate fingers.
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