It was a nice day out in the Atlantic so we cruised out to Sombrero Reef nearby Marathon, hoping that the murky waters had cleared up. There are about 30 mooring balls over the coral reef where you can just pick out a mooring ball and tie your boat up to see the reef without damaging the corals with an anchor. The mooring balls all accept boats up to 65 ft, and there is one mooring ball for larger boats.

We moored in about 18 ft. of water and I just went skin diving to see the reef, but the water was still so cloudy that visibility was only about 10 ft. I could see nothing as I swam down and then when I was within less than 10 ft. of the bottom, things would start to come into view. The water was not too cold so I just went snorkeling some because I didn't want to go to the hassle of getting out my wetsuit and scuba gear just to scuba in cloudy waters. There were lots of fish every time I dived down. It's a pretty short video because you don't get a lot of bottom time skin diving, even at just 18 ft.




This evening, after we were back at the dock, we had 6 or 8 of the other boaters from our dock over for drinks on our aft deck and saw another really pretty sunset. It's a very nice group of people that winter here at marathon key.