Reef Rider Snorkeling Adventure
The Coolest Way to experience the Reef
Drive your own boat as you and your friends explore the beautiful west coast of Antigua out to the stunning Cades Reef on the award-winning Antigua Reef Rider Snorkeling Tour.
When you arrive, you are greeted with warm smiles and a chilled bottle of water. Attend a brief safety orientation, then suit up with your life vest and snorkeling equipment.
Trained guides show you how to drive our boats before you set off on your snorkeling adventure.
The Reef Riders offers a fun, safe, enclosed, secure, and exhilarating experience, far safer than jet skis, and there’s absolutely no previous experience required.
Follow the tour guide and drive slowly through the marina, and then once you’re safely past the marker buoy, push the throttle forward and accelerate.
Turn left, then hold on tight as you and your friends drive your own boat seven miles along the beautiful west coast of Antigua to Cades Reef.
On your way, you pass many of our famous west coast beaches, starting with Jolly Beach, past Valley Church, Ffryes, Darkwood, Turners, and more. Don’t forget to wave to the people on the beach and the sailboats as you zip past them, with the wind in your hair and a smile on your face. Keep a lookout for some of our beautiful marine life as you zoom along the coast. The area is well known for turtles and rays.
Then, head out to Cades Reef, which is a protected area and part of the National Marine Reserve. It is simply the best reef snorkeling spot in Antigua. Put on your snorkel, mask, and fins (provided) and dive into the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean Sea for a fully guided snorkeling tour of the reef, which takes approx. 45 minutes, with a tour guide with you in the water at all times.
Our boats are small enough to moor inside the reef lagoon to get you closer to the amazing marine life, including stingrays, lobster, parrotfish, surgeonfish, wrasse, and maybe even a turtle or two, as well as the beautiful coral reef itself. But don’t forget to look at the hundreds of other beautiful smaller fish too! The reef is home to many different species, each with their own unique behaviour and beauty.
Once the snorkeling is over, then it’s all aboard on the boats and back along the coast before returning you safely to our launch spot in the marina.
