posted by admin on May 25
The water is kind of green out there right now, green water tends to have less horizontal visibility then blue water. But the conditions are not bad, the water is warm, and seas are flat.
Here are some photos
posted by admin on May 15
Well the water is very clear and warm. There has been 40-80 feet of visibility and calm seas. You really don’t get conditions much better then that.
Couple pics, a sea turtle
some sort of old anchor
and a nurse shark, totally harmless. Nurse sharks actualy have sand paper for teeth and are very docile. They are very common on the reef.
Some other pics from yesterday
posted by admin on Apr 23
Vis is back to around 30-35 feet
no photos
posted by admin on Apr 6
Well Conditions have drastically improved over the last couple weeks here in Key West. There is awesome visibility out on reef, at 60 or 70 feet on the reef edge at places such as Sand Key and Western Dry rocks. The tricky thing is that that’s at high tide , its at about half that at low tide so plan your trip accordingly. We saw all the usually reef denizens such as hog snapper
and red grouper
We saw ton of see life and even had a pod of dolphins swim in to check us out, unfortunately the underwater camera was in the boat at the time.
We also rescued a sea turtle that was caught on a crab trap line while we where coming home.
posted by admin on Apr 1
as of this past Monday the visibility was pretty bad in front of Key West , like 10 feet of vis.
But the gulfstream is close and the winds of March have finally stopped so we will see what this weekend brings.
posted by admin on Mar 18
Well the waters in front of Key West are bit chalky but the visibility is ok for snorkeling. The water is blue but it just isn’t got the crystal clear quality we had the past couple weeks. You can see fine down but horizontally not as much.
Saw some new animals last time we were out
Some type scorpion fish
Baby Black Grouper
Spider Crab
Ray
posted by admin on Mar 2
Here is a little video of snorkeling in the shallow inshore waters of Key West, it was all taped in water less then 12 feet deep and within a half mile of shore.
The past couple weeks have been very windy, and although there was very clear water on the outer edge of the reef , then wind and waves made it difficult to get to and rather uncomfortable once you get there.
We went out a couple times to some inshore spots. Inshore to me generally would mean, within a mile or so of land. The big key west snorkeling spots such as Sand Key are around 6 miles from shore. Fortunately in Key West we are blessed with some coral and rock formations that are very close to shore but are teaming with life. Even though large fish are few close to shore we did see a large barracuda and a baby Goliath grouper.
So when the wind is howling there is still some pretty interesting stuff to see while snorkeling in Key West, even in the shallow inshore waters.
posted by admin on Jan 13
Visibility the past couple weeks has been good to great, ranging from 30- 80 feet. Perfect for snorkeling in Key West.
We have seen a variety of species while snorkeling including large amber jacks and massive King Mackerel.
That is a Remora, often referred to as a shark sucker. They often will try to follow you while your snorkeling hoping that you will be its new friend and provide it with shelter and free meals.
This is some type of reef squid, he also was pretty friendly and curious
This Gabi snorkeling and looking for stuff to take pictures of.
Sort of pufferfish, you can often see these hiding under rocks.
posted by admin on Nov 28
We went out yesterday and the visibility was excellent on the major Key West snorkeling spots in front of the island.
Visibility was over 50 feet most of the day.
We shot this little video in 20 feet or so of water, interesting stuff under rocks
Snorkeling Key West Thanksgiving from Catherine Tims on Vimeo.
We took a picture of a bonnet head shark, don’t get too excited he was probably less then 2 feet long and very scared of people.
posted by admin on Nov 20
At least in front of Key West, was out there for a couple hours and took a few pics
Just some of the common corals you would see on a Key West Snorkeling Trip
Small fish such as this Lane Snapper and Porkfish are very common in the waters around Key West.
All pics taken November 20th
