Mike
Contributor
So basically my options are close to town with long boat rides or far from town with shorter boat rides? Hmm, that's a tough call. Is there anything on the southern side of the island besides hotels, or is it just resort after resort? I'd like to be able to leave to get food and have a couple of items on my to-do list that will probably require me to go into town.
Those 'long' boat rides are actually to me a very pleasant and much looked forward to experience. I might be weird, but when the weather is sunny and warm and I'm speeding along on those calm close to shore waters with the warm wind blowing I love to sit on the gunwail and just absorb the ride, watching those incredibly beautiful different shades of blue of the Cozumel waters go by due to the white sand patches you're going over... I actually soak that in, relaxing and decompressing from 'normal' life back home and get into Cozumel mode, trying to memorize those colors and enjoy the experience and absorb it, because it will all be over too soon. Those colors are unique to Cozumel and as many places as I've been, I've rarely been to a place where the water rivals the way it looks in Cozumel. And the last dive and the boat ride back always seems to go by too quickly!