Diving Delray Beach for sunken sight seeing

There are a ton of things to do in Delray. Homey bistros, live music and the occasional street fair. But one of my favorite places to visit in town isn't even in walking distance. You have to swim there.

The S.S. Inchulva is a 1903 shipwreck scattered in about 20ft of water 150 yards off shore of Delray Beach. What's left of the wreck is the ship's cylindrical boiler that can be reached from the beach using snorkel gear.

This underwater archive serves as an artificial reef that is home to tropical fish, lobsters and southern stingrays. This was the first place my amateur snorkeler, Texas boyfriend experienced a pair of spotted eagle rays soaring over him. He now frequents, as the locals call it, "the boiler".

On a flat calm, clear, sunny day there's nowhere else to be in Delray.