Diving Under The Blue Heron Bridge

On this installment of In-Depth Adventures, we are going to a popular dive site in Florida, the Blue Heron Bridge. I'm excited to get in the water and check out the vast array of sea life you can find here. Oh my god, Florida in August. It is, it is warm out. Alright, so today we are here at Phil Foster Park just north of West Palm Beach. This is a very popular diving and snorkeling spot called Blue Heron Bridge. I'm here with my dive buddy Morgan, she's over there somewhere. So we just got here a little early so we could park and just check it out, but yeah we're gonna go get ready. The time to actually get out there is, you want to time it right so you're out there during slack tide. So we're just gonna go get all of our gear ready, just get ready to go out so we're not rushed. Hopefully we see something cool. Normally you go out to where the snorkel trail is and where each one of the marker buoys are are different objects that are already underwater. So there's like a little sunken boat that's under there and some statues that have marine life on them and then once you go through the different structures you go underneath the bridge where the pilings are that tend to have a lot of marine life under there. You can see it's not even close to slack tide yet and there's a lot of people here so there's gonna be a lot of people in the water. Let's get ready to go. All right camera's all set up. Okay so we're off. So this is a very easy dive and shallow and even though our tanks will last us well over an hour you only have the window of slack tide to get the best visibility. So this is a really shallow dive here which makes it awesome. The deepest I've ever been here was about 25 feet in the sand so super shallow super relaxing. So Morgan has done this dive many times but this is my first time here. I'm excited because from what I researched there's just such a variety of sea life that could be here. You could see anything from eels, octopus, seahorse to eagle rays and even manatees. Seeing a manatee would be cool but spoiler alert we didn't see one. So what did we see? Well to start there was definitely a lot of these big starfish. Very pretty. This must be that little boat Morgan was talking about earlier. I'm not sure if it's always like this here but I did notice that there was a little bit of a current. So following the piles of rocks we eventually see a dark shaded area with these big pillars so we know we've made it to the east bridge. This is the coolest part of the dive. This is why you come. Sea life just kind of hangs under the bridge all in one small shallow area. There's just lots of cool stuff to see. Again checking my dive log our max depth on this dive was only 20 feet and the water temp was 85 degrees. We saw a bunch small stuff on this dive. Lots of these little lemon rays hanging around. There's lots of these big spadefish swimming around and there's this free diver guy. I don't know if he's always there. There actually aren't too many people under the bridge with us. I think a lot of the people who are out snorkeling just want to hang out by the little rock piles closer to the beach. So even though there was a lot of people that we saw go into the water not a lot of people made it over here to where we are under the east bridge. For me I thought this sharptail snake eel swimming around was one of the coolest things that I saw. They are a very pretty eel. So apparently these eels aren't that bothered by people. If they ever feel threatened or scared they'll just bury themselves in the sand. Overall it's a really easy fun dive. The hardest part for me was carrying my camera gear while also towing around our dive flag. The next time I'm in the area I will definitely come back to dive here. It's kind of a grab bag in a good way because you never know what you're gonna see. Maybe next time we'll get to see deore. Maybe a manatee. That would be awesome. So yeah overall really cool dive. Really fun dive. Morgan and I are gonna head back to the beach. We are going to hit the road. We're gonna go down to the keys. So the next video will be diving in the keys. We're gonna do some wrecks and some reefs. It'll be fun. Thanks for watching.