achu
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Two awesome dives today! It was a beautiful perfect sunny cozumel day! Visibility wasn´t great, but no matter...it was still two amazing dives.
First dive: Palancar Gardens Max Depth 80ft Time 45min.
As the boat reached the dive site, and we geared up, we spotted a huge turtle "snorkeling". It looked up and seemed to crane its neck at us and then looked back down and continued to snorkel at the surface! LOL!
We dropped into the shallow sandy side and once everyone reached the bottom, we swam over towards the divemaster´s "secret coral head location". We then proceeded to head towards a swimthrough on the wall. There were hundreds and thousands of sardines hovering around the entrance of the swim through! WOW, as we swam into the "cave" the river of sardines parted for us and I could see the silvery "bubbles" of the divers goign onto the coral above... then the silvery glint of the bijillions of sardines darting all around us. I looked around and there were the bigger fish that were hovering around having their "munchies". It was a truely magical swimthrough!
The rest of the dive, we saw huge groupers, lobsters and just enjoyed the breathtaking coral formations towering above us. The dive ended all to soon and we had to surface...
2nd Dive: Dalila Max depth 50 feet Time 50 min.
As we got to the bottom, we spotted a turtle, swimming along lazily. Next came all the cute little toadfish hiding in every crevice. What is this? HMmm.. it looks like an moray eel tail, but BUT NOOOO, it has these frilly yellow trim fins lining the tail... Could it be??? Could it really be???? A SPLENDID TOADFISH TAIL????? How incredibly exciting! Probably a first and a last for me... a "once in a lifetime". I must be blessed! To actually see a toadfish tail!!! Well... that was brief, the little guy must have realized that someone was admiring his "back end" and quickly turned around to the standard toadfish position just staring out at me as only a toadfish can. Sigh, I´m satisfied. I´m a believer now, the silly looking splended toadfish of Cozumel actually do have tails!
We continued the dive and saw some beautiful golden moray eels, huge crabs just standing out in the open, flourescent blue gobies, little banded shrimp, huge green anenomes with their little see through purple spotted symbiotic crabs hiding inside. We were about to end the dive when one diver turned around and came face to face with a turtle. How exciting! It was her last dive of her trip. What a way for her to end her diving vacation! I know she will be back to Cozumel again.
As for me? Well, I´ll be back out there soon enough!
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
Achuuuuuuuu
First dive: Palancar Gardens Max Depth 80ft Time 45min.
As the boat reached the dive site, and we geared up, we spotted a huge turtle "snorkeling". It looked up and seemed to crane its neck at us and then looked back down and continued to snorkel at the surface! LOL!
We dropped into the shallow sandy side and once everyone reached the bottom, we swam over towards the divemaster´s "secret coral head location". We then proceeded to head towards a swimthrough on the wall. There were hundreds and thousands of sardines hovering around the entrance of the swim through! WOW, as we swam into the "cave" the river of sardines parted for us and I could see the silvery "bubbles" of the divers goign onto the coral above... then the silvery glint of the bijillions of sardines darting all around us. I looked around and there were the bigger fish that were hovering around having their "munchies". It was a truely magical swimthrough!
The rest of the dive, we saw huge groupers, lobsters and just enjoyed the breathtaking coral formations towering above us. The dive ended all to soon and we had to surface...
2nd Dive: Dalila Max depth 50 feet Time 50 min.
As we got to the bottom, we spotted a turtle, swimming along lazily. Next came all the cute little toadfish hiding in every crevice. What is this? HMmm.. it looks like an moray eel tail, but BUT NOOOO, it has these frilly yellow trim fins lining the tail... Could it be??? Could it really be???? A SPLENDID TOADFISH TAIL????? How incredibly exciting! Probably a first and a last for me... a "once in a lifetime". I must be blessed! To actually see a toadfish tail!!! Well... that was brief, the little guy must have realized that someone was admiring his "back end" and quickly turned around to the standard toadfish position just staring out at me as only a toadfish can. Sigh, I´m satisfied. I´m a believer now, the silly looking splended toadfish of Cozumel actually do have tails!
We continued the dive and saw some beautiful golden moray eels, huge crabs just standing out in the open, flourescent blue gobies, little banded shrimp, huge green anenomes with their little see through purple spotted symbiotic crabs hiding inside. We were about to end the dive when one diver turned around and came face to face with a turtle. How exciting! It was her last dive of her trip. What a way for her to end her diving vacation! I know she will be back to Cozumel again.
As for me? Well, I´ll be back out there soon enough!
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
Achuuuuuuuu
