SWIMMING WITH THE FISHES

Between Boca Chita and Ragged Keys there is an unnamed pass with a wreck, a few ledges, and a few holes. At high tide, slack current, you have about twenty minutes of safe snorkeling.

Among the bajillions of small fish, you see sharks, rays, snook, and blowfish.

A nurse shark, about four feet long:


A spotted ray:

I must get better with the underwater housing for my digital camera. There are twenty buttons and levers to operate a Canon Powershot S1 IS. You can't read what they do when they are in the housing. You have to remember.