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The best place to snorkel at Flash of Beauty for people that are not strong swimmers is almost right in front of the restaurant. Go out slightly to the right (east) of the easternmost covered seat. From up high on the beach, you can see a visible opening in the reef that comes all the way in. You can snorkel that opening and see quite a bit without having to get very far out. The cut is deep. If you don't go far out, there is normally very little surge there. There are a couple of large rock formations that are teeming with fish, especially beneath them. As you proceed out there, you will begin to feel come surge, so don't go too far. If you are a strong swimmer and have good fins, you can go out quite a bit farther and see many giant heads of coral in about 20 to 40 feet of water. I almost always see larger snapper, grouper, lobster, and a shark or two out in the deeper water.
If you go out farther, make sure that you don't drift too far to the west by taking a sighting from the surface back towards the beach and finding two recognizable objects that in line with each other (a "range" sighting). Then, as you continue, periodically look back and check to see that you have not gone down-current of that original range sighting.
You come back in exactly the way you went out.
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