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Snorkeling and sunburn
Posted by Stephanie from Glamorous in Retrospect
Today's stop was Cozumel. We booked a private snorkel tour with Cozumel H2O, by which we got a boat and a private guide to take us to 4 different reefs to snorkel. I am not a strong swimmer, and the guide was perfectly happy to tie a floatie around my waist and have me hold on to a life preserver that he towed around on the end of a string. Toby is much better than I am, so he swam around, keeping close-ish to the guide and I. Every so often in the deeper areas, the guide would free dive down to the bottom to look around and spot wildlife, which he would then point out to us.
The first place we stopped was a shallow reef, about 6 foot deep, which was covered with sand and sprinkled with sea stars. We didn't stay too long there because, as the guide said, it's kind of boring after the first 10-15 minutes. The next 3 areas were deeper--30-40 feet, and the final stop had, in addition to the 30-40 foot depth, the GIANT CLIFF INTO THE ABYSS where the shelf takes a 1500-foot dive. We snorkled around the edge of that without going over. It wasn't the huge dive into nothingness that you can see in a lot of ocean photography because it was just blue to us. Still vaguel creepy, but as long as the guide was happily towing me around, I was fine with it.
Naturally I forgot to put sunblock on my legs because my legs never burn (they also never tan). But I also never spend 4 hours floating face down in water. I spent $15 at the cruise ship's store for a bottle of Aloe Freeze Gel to soothe it. Ah well.
We saw starfish, lots of fish including barracuda and a nurse shark (harmless to humans--they have no teeth, feeding through suction, and if one was so supremely addled as to think you might be prey, the worst you'd get would be a hickey), and a sea turtle. Although since Toby and I both wear glasses, and were not wearing them in the water, we saw blurry movement and took pictures, which upon examination later proved to indeed be a shark and a sea turtle.
SPEAKING OF PICTURES....
... (Continue reading: http://travel.mushtee.com/?p=899)
Categories: #2018Cruise
Today's stop was Cozumel. We booked a private snorkel tour with Cozumel H2O, by which we got a boat and a private guide to take us to 4 different reefs to snorkel. I am not a strong swimmer, and the guide was perfectly happy to tie a floatie around my waist and have me hold on to a life preserver that he towed around on the end of a string. Toby is much better than I am, so he swam around, keeping close-ish to the guide and I. Every so often in the deeper areas, the guide would free dive down to the bottom to look around and spot wildlife, which he would then point out to us.
The first place we stopped was a shallow reef, about 6 foot deep, which was covered with sand and sprinkled with sea stars. We didn't stay too long there because, as the guide said, it's kind of boring after the first 10-15 minutes. The next 3 areas were deeper--30-40 feet, and the final stop had, in addition to the 30-40 foot depth, the GIANT CLIFF INTO THE ABYSS where the shelf takes a 1500-foot dive. We snorkled around the edge of that without going over. It wasn't the huge dive into nothingness that you can see in a lot of ocean photography because it was just blue to us. Still vaguel creepy, but as long as the guide was happily towing me around, I was fine with it.
Naturally I forgot to put sunblock on my legs because my legs never burn (they also never tan). But I also never spend 4 hours floating face down in water. I spent $15 at the cruise ship's store for a bottle of Aloe Freeze Gel to soothe it. Ah well.
We saw starfish, lots of fish including barracuda and a nurse shark (harmless to humans--they have no teeth, feeding through suction, and if one was so supremely addled as to think you might be prey, the worst you'd get would be a hickey), and a sea turtle. Although since Toby and I both wear glasses, and were not wearing them in the water, we saw blurry movement and took pictures, which upon examination later proved to indeed be a shark and a sea turtle.
SPEAKING OF PICTURES....
... (Continue reading: http://travel.mushtee.com/?p=899)
Categories: #2018Cruise
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