We spent a wonderful week of diving in Curaçao and loved it. Even though we’re in Florida and dive regularly here, the 100+ foot visibility, the close to shore drop-off, and the healthy reefs full of life made diving in Curaçao a treat.
Tag: Shore Diving
We were happy to get away for a week of diving in Curaçao, where we stayed at the Marriott Beach Resort. While not a dive resort as such, the Curaçao Marriott Beach Resort does have an on-site dive shop and is well located to hit the popular dive sites.
Located just off Hollywood Beach between Johnson and Michigan Streets (near the Margaritaville Hotel), you’ll find the Yellow Brick Road dive site. It’s a great shore dive for all levels of divers and with lots of macro photo ops. The site is a former outfall pipe structure used for sewage and wastewater. The 800 foot-long […]
The US Virgin Islands had been on our radar for a long time and with all the travel restrictions, organizing a dive vacation in St. Thomas seemed like the ideal plan. Since it’s a United States territory, no covid test was required to come back to the mainland. Perfect! While the resort bills itself as […]
Over the course of the pandemic, my husband and I have been doing a lot of shore diving. One issue that came up was: What do we do with our electronic car key? We looked and asked but never really found a good answer. While we saw some good options for surface-based watersports, there was […]
Lauderdale-By-The-Sea is a great place to go shore diving in South Florida. All along the coast of this seaside town the coral reef is really close to shore and is easy to reach. It’s also full of life and makes for interesting and fun dives.
The Blue Heron Bridge is a popular shore dive in Florida, especially during weekends. It’s an awesome muck dive site, perfect for underwater photography. Blennies, gobies, seahorses, batfish, pipefish, frogfish, and many other tiny creatures call the Blue Heron Bridge home. Large schools of reef fish are a common sight and if you’re lucky you […]
Bonaire has been high up on our list as one of the top places to go for a scuba diving vacation. It’s one of the best shore diving destinations in the world with pristine reefs thriving with marine life. In fact, all the surrounding waters are part of the Bonaire National Marine Park. This means that […]
We’ve been making our way through a list of dive resorts in the Caribbean to sample both resorts as well as the local reefs and their inhabitants. Bonaire had been high up on our list as one of the top, if not the top, shore diving destinations in the world. As we researched places to […]
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Reef Diving in South Florida
With the world’s third largest coral reef system less than a mile from the coast of South Florida, there are lots of excellent dive sites to choose from. Some are even accessible from shore while others are only a short boat ride away. South Florida is blessed with spectacular reefs thriving with sea life and […]