Sosua Bay Private Snorkel: All-Inclusive Half-Day on the Dominican Atlantic

The day starts with the smell of salt and sunscreen—guide names called out, a small bus humming through palms, and the Atlantic thinning into the glassy mouth of Sosua Bay. On the boat you push off a white-sand shore and the town slips behind you: tile roofs, fishermen mending nets, and the first blue that seems to keep going. The captain eases up on the throttle at Three Rocks, a trio of coral pinnacles that rise from shallow water like ancient sea sentries; here masks go on, life jackets click, and guides point out parrotfish and wrasse that braid through the coral.