Cenote for sea life?

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I love those blue swimming crabs in Casa Cenote! They're amazing. And the little canyons, and the tarpon . . . that place is well worth the 50 pesos entry just to go scuba for an hour. And if you're cave certified, the traverse to the ocean is great fun :)
 
I love those blue swimming crabs in Casa Cenote! They're amazing. And the little canyons, and the tarpon . . . that place is well worth the 50 pesos entry just to go scuba for an hour. And if you're cave certified, the traverse to the ocean is great fun :)

Mario (with Dive Aventuras) and Armando (free-lancer out of Abyss in PDC) both mentioned the traverse to the ocean, and it is the one thing that might make me go after cave. However, just diving to the drop on the ocean side of the cenote is sufficient for us to really appreciate the connectivity between the cenotes and the ocean.

We just love the experience of seeing juvenile fish of such a variety of species (especially the baby flounder out in the sandy areas), and the blue crabs are a bonus!
 
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Can anyone recommend the best cenotes for interesting sea life in the Akumal area?

Do you really mean "sea life", or do you mean "aquatic creatures"? If you actually do mean sea life, then Casa Cenote is probably your only choice.

Car wash cenote has both.

Really? Sea life? I'd have thought it was much too far inland for that. Do you mean it has (freshwater) fish?
 
Do you really mean "sea life", or do you mean "aquatic creatures"? If you actually do mean sea life, then Casa Cenote is probably your only choice.



Really? Sea life? I'd have thought it was much too far inland for that. Do you mean it has (freshwater) fish?

Car wash seems to have the largest collection of blind cave fish I have seen anywhere in the siphon side, but yes not sea life.
 
My wife and I have dived the cenotes in the Yucatan for the past 11 years, and while each one has it's own individual attraction, Casa Cenote has to be our favorite, for just what you are asking. You hear about the interface between the ocean environment and the fresh water of the cenotes, but nowhere is it better represented than Casa Cenote. On our last visit there, our guide took us up the right (North?) side, into any number of chutes and and channels that had nice populations of juvenile and adolescent salt water fishes. Our favorite is the blue crabs that populate the middle of the channel, who hide among the algae and leaves that have fallen to the bottom. Then we came down the left (South) side, and got into the Mangrove roots (they are actually on both sides) to see the environment they represent.

If you have only snorkeled Casa Cenote, you missed the extraordinary experience that it represents. Our last dive ended with a dip down to the base on the East end, at the exit to the ocean (there's a sign there), where you have an opportunity to clearly appreciate where the mixing is starting to occur, and the relationship that the cenotes have with the ocean and the fresh water underground rivers.

If you've been to Casa Cenote on snorkel and loved it, doing it on Scuba will blow you away.

hi

where is it?

thanks i found it... near cancun
 
hi

where is it?

thanks i found it... near cancun
I think Casa Cenote is 126 Km south of Cancun, 11 Km north of Tulum.
 
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