Snorkeling Florida: 50 Excellent Sites

Read the reviews and had hoped for better. It is good information but definitely dated and could use an update.

This book shows its age by not mentioning quite a few good beach snorkeling sites. To name a fe:w Ocean Park Beach Phil Foster snorkeling Trail at Phil Foster Park and Peanut Island Park. All in Palm Beach County. The copywrite date is 20008 which means , at the least, the material is 10 years old. Still if purchased second hand it could be a handy reference to add to your snorkeling library

We recently moved to florida and want to snorkel as much as we can. After using this book, we went to John Pennecamp state park in Key Largo and took one of the snorkeling trips out of the park. It was the best and most diverse coral reef snorkeling we've ever seen. We recently went to St Andrews State Park by Panama City on the book's recommendation and found it very good for snorkeling from the beach. The book has websites and phone #s as well as good tips for selecting equipment and dealing with the dangers of encountering certain wildlife in the ocean. We've found it very helpful for beginning snorkelers.

The author spends a lot of print on chatty tourist information regarding the various towns throughout the state. It could have been far more informative if more effort were put into the actual characteristics of the dive sites than the popular bars in Key West as an example. And most of the "ratings" are Beginner to Advanced. Some explanation of how the "ratings" can be so all encompassing would make this book worthwhile. Otherwise just use one of the many dive charts available.

I had bought other books purporting to identify and describe both diving and snorkeling sites, only to discover that all of the "snorkeling" sites were actually offshore scuba sites with a bit shallower water. I have ear problems and cannot pressurize deeper than 6-8 feet, so these other books were useless to me. This book describes both offshore and inshore/beach sites, both deeper and shallower. I will update this entry once we take our Florida Keys trip in April '13.

Very nice book for planning snorkeling trips in Florida! Well written with the guess work taken care of for you. Highlights of dive area. Nice photos too.

There are many more local snorkeling locations in SE Florida that were not mentioned in the book that are really more appropriate for beach/shoreline snorkelers. Maybe I should write my own book.

I discovered a lot of nice sites that I did not was there. The book was very informative about the site and what is around it.