At the sight of a barracuda gliding beneath me, I was so startled I went, “Wow!”
Which was stupid, as I was face down in the Atlantic and got a mouthful of saltwater.
But it was such a thrill on our snorkelling trip at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in the Florida Keys. I was with a group of girlfriends visiting the Keys, a slimline 125-mile archipelago off Florida’s southern coast. Just two hours from Miami but a world away from its bustle, the Keys is a laid-back destination that is all about the water.
With the Florida Bay on one side and Atlantic Ocean on the other, every selfie you take will likely have a sparkling blue vista in the background and your swimsuit will become a second skin. We dived right into our holiday with the snorkelling trip — Florida has the US mainland’s only living coral barrier reef, protected as a National Marine Sanctuary.
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