St. Croix Snorkeling Pictures

[jonhall]

Have been going through my laptop saving pictures to an external drive and then deleting a bunch from the laptop (about 6000 so far!) Came across several pictures from snorkeling the west coast of St. Croix, an area offshore (just walked into the water) from the pink condos which are located between Rainbow Beach and Coconuts Beach Bar. All were taken in 2007 and 2008, but thought that those considering visiting the island would appreciate that there can be some good snorkeling as well as diving. The barracuda in the swirling school of fish is the only picture taken in a different location - snorkeling at Cane Bay.

Hope this link works!

http://s1161.photobucket.com/user/jon1hall/library/Snorkeling St Croix

 

[kerrycorcoran]

Good pictures.

 

[Skeptic14]

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

 

[morecowbells]

You managed to see quite a variety of marine life while snorkeling! I love the eagle ray shot, under bite and all.

 

[jonhall]

You managed to see quite a variety of marine life while snorkeling! I love the eagle ray shot, under bite and all.

I think this is the thing that amazes me most....the diversity about 5-40 yards from shore. We have been spoiled when traveling other places because we haven't found any snorkeling like this anywhere else (whether it's bad timing or a bad location.)

 

[DebbyDiver]

I lived there 2011-12 and we used to do the 160' for 60 minutes dive. Yes! Let me explain. We'd swim out to about 80 FSW then descend, and make our way down to 160' (BIG LOBSTERS!), spend a brief time at depth then slowly make our way back to shore. By the time we hit the beach, we'd done a very very very slow "ascent". Miss those days.