Snorkeling Dry Tortugas National Park
Extra Pictures Page
We took tons of pictures when snorkeling Dry Tortugas National Park. And here is the first of two extra snorkel picture pages for you to see what it was like. If you have not yet seen our main page about snorkeling Dry Tortugas National Park you can here.
These pictures are all from the second snorkeling spot we described on the first page. This was a shallow area of patch reefs about 50 to 80 yards out from the fort.In the picture below you can see a couple of Bar Jacks, with a mess of other common tropical fish underneath. Next to the moat wall there were many immature Bar Jacks, but these two were of good size.
As you can see in the picture above, there were thousands of fish schooling on these small patch reefs. In the video below you can see me dive down a little and swim through a good sized school.
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Below you can see one of the huge Tarpon cruising around these great snorkeling patches. It is hard to tell the size of this guy, but this one was big enough that for a second we were startled thinking it was a shark cruising by so close.
It seems like everywhere we snorkel we find Barracuda (above). Below you can see a nice red sponge. And then after that a coral covered in the wonderful Christmas Tree Worms.
As we snorkeled from north to south, the patch reefs kept getting smaller. This one was all by itself.
I am not exactly sure what this fish was, but it was pretty darn big. It may be a type of Margate.
Well that's it. We hope you find these pictures of snorkeling the patch reef of Dry Tortugas National Park enticing enough to give it a try yourself.
Now check out more snorkeling pictures from the next spot we snorkeled (around the old wharf pilings)- click here.
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