Comments on: Snorkeling Catalina Island Lover’s Cove and Avalon Underwater Park, California https://www.tropicalsnorkeling.com/snorkeling-catalina-island-lovers-cove-avalon-underwater-park-california/ Advocates Of Great Snorkeling Experiences Sat, 28 Jan 2023 22:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Rebecca https://www.tropicalsnorkeling.com/snorkeling-catalina-island-lovers-cove-avalon-underwater-park-california/#comment-27 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:01:02 +0000 http://www.tropicalsnorkeling.com/?p=5128#comment-27 I found the snorkeling at Catalina Island to be extremely underwhelming. I’m sure scuba diving is entirely different, because you can go down to the depths (which start immediately, whether you are behind the casino or at Lover’s Cove). I felt like there wasn’t a large surface area that you could cover to see anything while snorkeling, and you basically had to stick to the coastline. The fish are large, many, and beautiful, but that’s about it, and not a whole lot of variation.

It would be a good first snorkeling experience for someone who just wants to try it and see some fish, but if you want to see a large variation of sea life snorkeling at the surface and a large area to cover, you might be a bit disappointed. If you want amazing snorkeling, go to Hawaii, parts of the Gulf of Mexico off of Cozumel, or the Mediterranean. It’s not worth the day trip to Catalina to just snorkel.

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