The park also includes the Gumbo Limbo Environmental Education Center that covers 20 acres. Some of the attractions within the Gumbo Limbo center include large aquariums with a variety of sea life, classrooms, displays, a forty foot high observation tower, a scenic boardwalk and a butterfly garden.

The Red Reef Park features picnicking areas, swimming, snorkeling, abundant wildlife, great bird watching opportunities, surf fishing, lifeguards, a very clean beach with soft sand, and an active artificial reef.

We visited the park in the late afternoon on a weekday which explains why there are only a few other beachgoers in my pictures. Naturally, on weekends, there is more of a crowd.

The price of admission into the park is $16 during the week and $18 on weekends.

If you live in Palm Beach County, or in the city of Boca Raton then you can purchase an annual parking pass for $31.25.

The parking permits can be obtained at City Hall, the Boca Raton Community Center, the City Hall Annex, the James A. Rutherford Community Center at Patch Reef Park, or at the Sugar Sand Park Community Center.

I've read that you can see a nice variety of tropical sea life including stingrays, turtles, eels, jellyfish, barracudas, coral heads, parrot fish, blue tangs, sergeant majors, snappers, grouper, lobster and even an occasional manatee.

I've also read that the best snorkeling experience is at high tide when most of the rocks are covered in water.

I bought the case after I saw the mediocre images that a disposable UW camera produced on our Cancun Spring Break trip.