Good Snorkeling Locations for L'il Buddy
My 6-year-old loves to snorkel right now--are there any places that he could easily see stuff without having to dive?
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Grew up summers on the lake. Dock areas, fish love to hang out under them (caution: watch for electrical around the dock.) Don't block navigation markers, but snorkel around the rocks near the markers. Steamboat Island. Steamboat Belknap starts in about 10 ft of water then goes deeper. We used to anchor on the south side of the bridge and then snorkel under the bridge to the wreck. Uninhabited shorelines : rocks, fish, all sorts of fun things to see.
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Suggestions for places in the north? We're planning Saturday or Sunday. Sent from my XT1528 using Tapatalk |
I agree with upthesaukee, pretty hard to beat the Belknap. I've seen it dozens of times and I still like to snorkel there. Was there on Saturday, actually. It is quite close to shore, between the shed and the last stand of trees on the Steamboat Island end of causeway. I don't know why it does not show up on google earth, it is certainly big enough. It might be the shadow here: 43.633341, -71.369872.
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Great Idea, If I can get the family to go diving, It'll be one more arrow in the quiver for buying a bigger boat. Thank you!
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Way back in camp counsellor days snorkel trips to the Belknap, the Witches, the Graveyard, and the Varney Islands were popular. Once found half of a Mercruiser outdrive in the Graveyard, complete with gear, shaft, propellor, and still oily. Kids had a blast! Also lots of fishing lures around.
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This was a post asking for the whereabouts of the sunken ship because I'm a doofus and forgot it was above.
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Just want to correct myself here. The wreck is on the east side of the bridge, the best anchoring is on the west side of the bridge. |
Wanted to add that there's usually a massive school of fish (like thousands of them) in the weed bed near 43.680979, -71.384980. They are mostly yellow perch and blue gills, however, they attract larger predatory fish, so you may seen some decent size bass and pickeral as well. Swimming over and among them is better than being in any aquarium I have ever been to. The best viewing is in the deeper water and weeds that don't make it all the way to the surface. The downside of this is that it's in Braun Bay and the crowds can cloud the water up on weekends.
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Caution Captain
The Belknap is on the east side of the small bridge between Birch Island and Steamboat Island. There are numerous large rocks in the vicinity of the sunken vessel.
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edited to add: After I answered you, I looked at a map and realized the wreck is east of the bridge. |
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