Snorkeling

For anyone who has not done snorkeling in his life and has an opportunity to do it, I would recommend not to miss this activity. It’s a real fun and people who are not expert in swimming or diving could enjoy the sea life by doing snorkeling. I got a chance to do snorkeling during my trip to Bahamas and enjoyed it.

Let me explain in details what exactly it is. Snorkeling is an activity where we use snorkel instrument to breathe when we are under the water, a live jacket to keep ourselves closer to the surface of water and fins to swim faster in the water. A snorkel instrument has an airtight eye glass and a nose piece which keeps water away from eyes and nose and a mouth piece used to breathe. One part of the mouth piece goes into our mouth for breathing and the other long tube is held outside in the air. This provides an easy flow of air into the mouth and we breathe by mouth instead of nose. The live jackets helps you to be closer to the surface of water so that snorkel tube can hang out in the air.

Once you face down in the water your world would change, you actually cut off from the outside world and can feel the life inside the water. You can see fishes swimming around you, can see several sea weeds moving with water. If you are at place which has a reef around then you can find various see animals and colorful fishes which would either live inside the reefs or would be busy eating weeds growing on the reef. Once in a while you would be surprised by a big fish measure about size of ur hand or by a school of thousands of small fishes. The world inside the water is very quite and motion of waves, fishes and weeds is so rhythmic and beautiful that you wont feel like coming out.

After doing the snorkeling I felt if snorkeling is so interesting, scuba diving would be a great fun. But for scuba you probably need to be a great swimmer and I will need a lot of practice before I even think of learning scuba.