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Hey gang!
we made it back from our 2nd trip to COZ. We had a blast!
Hotel:
The Pres....once again, lovely place....excellent food, service, and nice, clean rooms. Our package included the daily breakfast buffet....excellent papayas!! yummy! We stayed at the ocean front room....much better than the 5 story one. One thing, tooooooooooooo many mosquitos....the wife counted 86 on me, and i counted around 67 on her.....they were horrible! and aggresive too! yikes! even with use of the bug spray!!
Diving:
Used the onsite diveop, ScubaDu. great service for the most part.....if you get to know the DMs well, they will take you on their smaller, faster boat....only 6 divers...was nice....we also had unlimited shore diving....great snorkeling, diving right in front of the hotel.
We also dove at the cenotes.....taj majal and grand. it was awesome....pretty freaky initially, but when you get use to it...very serene.....dove with Diablo Divers....Dennis is waaaaaaaaaay cool......so nice, so knowledgeable.....he even took us for a little trip to Tulum for some extra bucks. He even fixed my primary stage at his house....had a little mishap with it......anyhow, an awesome experience....try it!
Eats:
aside from the hotel, we ate at La Mission (great grilled shrimp), Mesa 17 (good, but expected too much), Guido's (great pasta), Coconuts (pretty darn good food, and fun place too!)...all in all....excellent food....and at PDC, there were some great eats too! A fun city...
Diving:
Dove the usual...Palancar, Columbia, Torentos, Cedral Pass....all were sooooooooooo fun...i still think Palancar Horseshoe is one of my favorites! We got to see so much...including sea horses (3 of them for that matter~!)
All in all, great trip...but the mosquitos really made it tough this time....i've never got literally "attacked" by these suckers.....they are vicious! but hopefully, not dangerous.....hmmm
that's about it!!!
ps> used my new housing...ikelite...for my oly 8080....worked great! still practicing my photo skills....what a difference a strobe makes!! almost had to wear sunglasses under my mask!
take care, all!!!!!!!
blessings,
-daniel[/urlhttp://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/22299IMG_2358.JPG[/img]
we made it back from our 2nd trip to COZ. We had a blast!
Hotel:
The Pres....once again, lovely place....excellent food, service, and nice, clean rooms. Our package included the daily breakfast buffet....excellent papayas!! yummy! We stayed at the ocean front room....much better than the 5 story one. One thing, tooooooooooooo many mosquitos....the wife counted 86 on me, and i counted around 67 on her.....they were horrible! and aggresive too! yikes! even with use of the bug spray!!
Diving:
Used the onsite diveop, ScubaDu. great service for the most part.....if you get to know the DMs well, they will take you on their smaller, faster boat....only 6 divers...was nice....we also had unlimited shore diving....great snorkeling, diving right in front of the hotel.
We also dove at the cenotes.....taj majal and grand. it was awesome....pretty freaky initially, but when you get use to it...very serene.....dove with Diablo Divers....Dennis is waaaaaaaaaay cool......so nice, so knowledgeable.....he even took us for a little trip to Tulum for some extra bucks. He even fixed my primary stage at his house....had a little mishap with it......anyhow, an awesome experience....try it!
Eats:
aside from the hotel, we ate at La Mission (great grilled shrimp), Mesa 17 (good, but expected too much), Guido's (great pasta), Coconuts (pretty darn good food, and fun place too!)...all in all....excellent food....and at PDC, there were some great eats too! A fun city...
Diving:
Dove the usual...Palancar, Columbia, Torentos, Cedral Pass....all were sooooooooooo fun...i still think Palancar Horseshoe is one of my favorites! We got to see so much...including sea horses (3 of them for that matter~!)
All in all, great trip...but the mosquitos really made it tough this time....i've never got literally "attacked" by these suckers.....they are vicious! but hopefully, not dangerous.....hmmm
that's about it!!!
ps> used my new housing...ikelite...for my oly 8080....worked great! still practicing my photo skills....what a difference a strobe makes!! almost had to wear sunglasses under my mask!
take care, all!!!!!!!
blessings,
-daniel[/urlhttp://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/22299IMG_2358.JPG[/img]