Meeks Bay

Kit up at the beach — it is a short 125 ft (38 m) to the water's edge, and you can walk in anywhere along the sand. A short surface swim from the swim area buoys puts you over a bottom of roughly 3 to 4 m (10 to 15 ft), sandy with dead trees scattered along it. From there the ground shelves gradually before dropping faster at about 45 degrees into open sand. The angle is sharp, though it is not a wall dive, and on a good day visibility over 18 m (60 ft) lets you watch the slope run away below you before you have left the shallows.

Turn north along the slope and the sand gives way to structure: large trees lie on the bottom with crawdads packed underneath them, and schools of minnows, whitefish and mackinaw pass over the open sand. The rock ledge sits at around 18 m (60 ft), which makes a sensible turnaround for a single-tank dive at altitude. Rocky points at the north and south ends mark the limits of the bay and change the bottom composition depending on where you entered. Work back up the slope to the buoys and finish in the shallows, where the beach shelves gently enough to exit anywhere along its length.