sealskin98
Contributor
Without going into a long, detailed trip report (although this trip deserves one) here is a synopsis of the trip and a few photos:
We stayed at Caribe Blu and dove with Blue Angel, 7 nites and 5 days diving. I have only stayed at three other hotels/resorts on Coz. but this hotel has become my favorite. The rooms are big; although there were only two of us four people would not have any problem with having enough space. The view from the balcony was great, the air conditioning was nice and cold, the maid kept the room clean, and the beds were actually soft! The only issue I had was a little hot water problem in the shower, but thats nothing I havent had before at other places. Did I mention that the view was great?
Our dives were kinda shallow this trip, but that translated into longer bottom times. The dives were usually about 40 to 70 feet, and the deepest dives we went on were two dives on Santa Rosa Wall to 85 feet. The longest bottom time for me was 56 minutes on an AL80.
The usual reef suspects were seen, parrot fish, angel fish family, blue tangs, a sea turtle, a couple of green morays, an octopus, a rather large nurse shark, crabs, lobster, etc. and just on the edge of vis. on a safety stop there was some kind of fish giving an eagle ray hell. Was chasing and biting on him like all get-out.
These pictures are straight out of the camera and havent been through photoshop (I dont have that program) so they are not real good. All I did was set the white balance on the sand with a Canon A95.
The photos are:
Oh, can't post pics. now.
Firefyter and I waiving HI! Oh, thats a couple of lobsters.
The small sea turtle.
A queen angle (I thought that one turned out fairly good).
The DM Jose on Santa Rosa Wall at 85 feet.
A small green moray that Firefyter found that was sticking his head out of the coral to check us out (you can just see his head about the middle of the pic.).
And the view from the balcony of the room. Did I mention that the view was great?
All and all I think this was one of the best trips Ive had there. Great hotel and location, easy dive schedule (we did the 10 a.m. dives; hey, Im on vacation) and great dives. I think that I may actually go back.
We stayed at Caribe Blu and dove with Blue Angel, 7 nites and 5 days diving. I have only stayed at three other hotels/resorts on Coz. but this hotel has become my favorite. The rooms are big; although there were only two of us four people would not have any problem with having enough space. The view from the balcony was great, the air conditioning was nice and cold, the maid kept the room clean, and the beds were actually soft! The only issue I had was a little hot water problem in the shower, but thats nothing I havent had before at other places. Did I mention that the view was great?
Our dives were kinda shallow this trip, but that translated into longer bottom times. The dives were usually about 40 to 70 feet, and the deepest dives we went on were two dives on Santa Rosa Wall to 85 feet. The longest bottom time for me was 56 minutes on an AL80.
The usual reef suspects were seen, parrot fish, angel fish family, blue tangs, a sea turtle, a couple of green morays, an octopus, a rather large nurse shark, crabs, lobster, etc. and just on the edge of vis. on a safety stop there was some kind of fish giving an eagle ray hell. Was chasing and biting on him like all get-out.
These pictures are straight out of the camera and havent been through photoshop (I dont have that program) so they are not real good. All I did was set the white balance on the sand with a Canon A95.
The photos are:
Oh, can't post pics. now.
Firefyter and I waiving HI! Oh, thats a couple of lobsters.
The small sea turtle.
A queen angle (I thought that one turned out fairly good).
The DM Jose on Santa Rosa Wall at 85 feet.
A small green moray that Firefyter found that was sticking his head out of the coral to check us out (you can just see his head about the middle of the pic.).
And the view from the balcony of the room. Did I mention that the view was great?
All and all I think this was one of the best trips Ive had there. Great hotel and location, easy dive schedule (we did the 10 a.m. dives; hey, Im on vacation) and great dives. I think that I may actually go back.
