Snorkeling Honeymoon Beach

Another favorite snorkeling area I like is small Salomon Bay and the larger Honeymoon Beach. I like to take the 20 minute hike to Salomon to access both beaches. As I’ve mentioned in a previous blog some time ago, you can only access Salomon by hiking there or from the water by boat.

I typically enter the water on the east side of Salomon and snorkel over to Honeymoon. Then walk the beach down to the east side of Honeymoon where the snorkeling is better. You can just hike to Honeymoon bypassing Salomon if you like or park by the Caneel Bay Resort property and have a safari taxi drive you in for a small fee.

So let’s go snorkeling!

Here I can almost always count on seeing squid.

Other great finds:

This is a sea cucumber. Weird, huh?It is an echinoderm. They are marine animals which are found on the sea floor. They are important part of the marine ecosystem because they break down organic matter which recycles nutrients.

There are over 1,300 species of sea spiders and some can grow to be 3 ft in the Antarctic waters!

Obviously, this one was not so big😂

Roughback Batfish (ogcocephalus parvus) are rare to find but I believe this is one. I couldn’t see its mouth which is supposed to be bright red so I’m not sure. But I am welcome to any other suggestion as to what this fish might be??