Photo by Holly Henkel
At Salomon and Honeymoon Bays gently sloping, soft sand eases your way to the sea. The water is calm and shallow. These are excellent beaches for beginning snorkelers to experience the wonders of our undersea environment.

On the edges of the bays, along the rocky shorelines and around the point between the beaches are a type of coral reef known as fringing reef. A fringing reef is a relatively young reef which grows outward from the shoreline. In the center of the bays the sand beach extends into the water and the bottom gradually changes to coral rubble with some coral heads in deeper water.

Most of the reef is in calm shallow water with some sections even rising above the water line at times of extreme low tides. The condition of the reef is good, although there has been some damage to the coral caused by irresponsible boating and careless snorkelers and by natural phenomena such as heavy ground seas and hurricanes.

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