Why You Should Go Snorkeling on your next Vacation
By James Last Snorkeling is a fun, healthy, and educational activity that I enjoy doing when traveling to tropical destinations. It is also an activity that has caused me to develop more of an appreciation for the diversity and beauty of marine wildlife. There's something very exciting about jumping into what appears to be a mere body of water on the surface to find a whole new world of colorful and living ecosystems of thousands of different species beneath the surface. One of the things I find most fun about snorkeling is you never really know what you are going to see. I have seen sea turtles, eels, jelly fish, sting rays, sharks, urchins, and hundreds of other fish and coral species. While there's always an element of not knowing what you will see anytime you are in nature, the sheer diversity and number of species that exist in coral reefs make it all the more exciting to experience. There's also a sense of mystery that exists in the ocean that contributes to the e...