French Reef

With a great combination of swim-through caves and impressive ledges in 35 feet of water French Reef also boasts a great shallows area with healthy stands of elkhorn coral and a nice deep reef with large sponges and well developed coral heads in a classic spur and groove formation.

Christmas Tree Cave, just west of buoy F3 offers an easy swim-through. Look up to see the school of copper-sweepers who shun the light for the safe and shadowy environment of this shallow reef cave. Just landward of the same buoy is Hourglass Cave, featuring a distinct "hour glass" shaped column that splits the cave in two, one side slightly larger than the other. A pair of reef snook used to be found here on a regular basis, but we haven't seen them recently.