festival · Delray Beach · 23 mi
Downtown Delray Restaurant Month (Extended Through October)
Downtown Delray Beach
Singer Island is a barrier-island strip of high-rise condos, wide sand and some of the clearest snorkeling from shore in South Florida, at Phil Foster Park under the Blue Heron Bridge. The Riviera Beach marina district behind it is where the dive boats and sailfish charters leave from.
43 things to do · 125 upcoming events · 39 places to eat · Updated October 2026
festival · Delray Beach · 23 mi
Downtown Delray Beach





festival · West Palm Beach · 4.9 mi
10 am · Downtown West Palm Beach

festival · Boynton Beach · 18 mi
10 am · South Florida PBS

Park
Boardwalk over Lake Worth Lagoon, 2 mi of beach, snorkel-from-shore reef at high tide, kayak rentals.

Swimming hole
South Florida has no natural springs — they all sit north of Orlando. Local stand-ins: the spring-fed Venetian Pool in Coral Gables (1924 lagoon pool, $23, closed Mondays), the atoll pool at Matheson Hammock, the Snyder Park dog lake, and Peanut Island's snorkel lagoon.
Beach · Free
Often called the best shore dive in the US: 5–20 ft, marked snorkel trail, seahorses, octopus, eagle rays. Go within an hour of high tide only. Force-E and Pura Vida rent gear nearby.

Beach
Snorkel lagoon and east-side reef; weekdays in October are quiet, weekends are a sandbar party.

Beach
Rock reef 30–100 ft off the beach; high tide, calm days.
On the water
Turtle-heavy drift dives on Breakers Reef and the Mizpah wreck corridor. Pura Vida Divers (also Open Water certification ~$500–600 and Blue Heron Bridge guided shore dives), Walker's, Narcosis.


Only-here
Thursday-night artisan market plus sunset over the inlet — A local ritual; feed the tarpon.
Michelin star · West Palm Beach · 4.9 mi
Modern Cuban tasting — 16 seats, 10 courses, ~$235, two seatings; the year's big story

Waterfront · West Palm Beach · 4.9 mi
Waterfront saloon — On the guide's dog-friendly waterfront list