Dec 212009
Pickles Reef
Pickels Reef is another good spot, along with Hens and Chickens reef, for novice divers and snorkelers. It’s only 15 to 25 feet deep and it’s close to Molasses Reef, perhaps one of hte most beautiful and popular dive spots in the Florida Keys. The Bibb and The Duane, twin wrecks, are also close by.
The name comes from pickle barrels filled with cemetn, which were sunk in the late 1800s. The barrels make excellent habitat for pillar corals, and this is the best spot in the Florida Keys for seeing Pillar Coral. There are also lots of ledges and cracks in the rocks and coral, making for lots of good habitat for all sorts of marine life.
Pickles Reef is not marked by any buoys, so if you can find it, it’s less frequented by other divers.
