Desa
Contributor
Rick, I grew up in South Florida and moved to Indiana some years ago. I still love going back to south Florida to salt water dive.
If you are flying into Miami, you have some great choices. Drive down to Key Largo and dive the Spiegle Grove, Duanne, Bibb and some beautiful reefs. As mentioned before, for the most part there in no beach diving in the Keys. You usually have a pretty good haul through the mangroves to get to open/divable water.
Ft Lauderdale area has some great drift diving in the Gulf Stream. If I was going all the way to Key West, that would only be a stopping point to get on a boat and go to the Dry Tortugas area, I was not real impressed with the lower keys, but Tortugas area was worth the trip.
Still another trip, run over to Venice area and do the dive for prehistoric shark teethe on the West coast..
Just my 2psi............
If you are flying into Miami, you have some great choices. Drive down to Key Largo and dive the Spiegle Grove, Duanne, Bibb and some beautiful reefs. As mentioned before, for the most part there in no beach diving in the Keys. You usually have a pretty good haul through the mangroves to get to open/divable water.
Ft Lauderdale area has some great drift diving in the Gulf Stream. If I was going all the way to Key West, that would only be a stopping point to get on a boat and go to the Dry Tortugas area, I was not real impressed with the lower keys, but Tortugas area was worth the trip.
Still another trip, run over to Venice area and do the dive for prehistoric shark teethe on the West coast..
Just my 2psi............