Phil Foster Snorkel Trail — Attraction in Riviera Beach

The full moon arose as the sun set on a day that would have been at home in a Corona beer commercial. This past July 3rd, my friends & I descended beneath the water & didn’t break the surface again for over two and a half hours while scuba diving this small gem. A truly good spot for being both economical to visit, & also super accessible for a number of marine activities, it’s a rad nature action-adventure spot in a (relatively) safe environment. It was a totally immersive & awesome experience diving for a couple+ hours at a stretch in clear waters with lotsa critters to see (highly variable), with depths ranging a shallow 8-16 feet. This muck bottom is clear in providing an awesome opportunity to see a range of species usually spread out over many miles and ranging myriad environments, from pelagic to reef to brackish mangrove, & you never know what species BIG & small you might run into. I saw a HUGE-giant stingray just chillin’ that was bigger than the one I saw at Sea World in Orlando; the Shaq of stingrays, just big & big chillin both, just doing his cartilage skeleton-thing while being massive and shellfish oriented.

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Blue Heron Bridge Guided Snorkel Tour

Blue Heron Bridge, Phil Foster Park was a perfect spot and great for a beginner snorkeler like me. Clear views of the cool reef structures sitting offshore and marine life with its beautiful bright colours were worth seeing. Once you’ve done the reef circuit with an experienced tour operator, you could rent out some fins and a mask from a rental spot or get your own snorkelling equipment, swim out from the shore and start snorkelling. Many people there are snorkelling and scuba diving.

Once you’ve had a taste of these magical underwater views, there’s no doubt you’ll want to experience it again and again; I surely will.

So if you’ve always wanted to try out snorkelling, I’d say go for it and book the Blue Heron Bridge guided snorkel...

The day we went the visibility in the river was quite poor. We even scouted the location the day prior and talked to locals for tips about timing and parking but the high tide at full moon was just too turbid to see anything while snorkeling the morning we came. I was hoping to see what we saw in the YouTube videos we watched, but no luck.

Hoping our next trip will be more successful in finding the modules of the snorkel trail and getting some good photos of the underwater sea life that we’ve heard about here....