Akumal Cenotes

[daylight]

I had Rogelio as a guide for caves for three days. Recommend him highly. He is very safety aware and dives conservatively.

Boydski,
Nice report and photos.
Enjoy,
Larry

 

[boydski]

JerseyWreckDvr once bubbled...
Great pics. What was your camera setup?

Actually, those were my first pictures with a new camera and housing. I traded up from an Olympus 3030 in a Tetra Housing to a Nikon D100 in a Light & Motion Titan D100 housing. I was quite pleased with the results using a Nikon 16mm fisheye lens, but I was laughing through my regulator a lot as I was taking pictures, because I was having trouble finding the camera controls on the new housing in the Dark!

The Dos Ojos pictures were taken with a single strobe ( my Nikonos SB-105 failed ) and the others were taken with 2 strobes. The white walls helped a lot.

 

[boydski]

daylight once bubbled...
I had Rogelio as a guide for caves for three days. Recommend him highly. He is very safety aware and dives conservatively.

Boydski,
Nice report and photos.
Enjoy,
Larry

Was that on 11/14 - 11/16 by chance? Rogelio did our cavern course on 11/9 - 11/12 and then spent 3 days as a Cave guide over the weekend before returning and taking us on a tour of Taj Mahal. I think he said the guy he was diving with was from Houston?

 

[R_Deluca]

boydski once bubbled...

If you are driving yourself, I should warn you that the road to Dos Ojos is about 20 Km long, and is really, really bad. Take your time driving and be glad that it's a rental car ( we used big vans ) and not your car!

Thanks for the driving tips!

My buddy is driving and he drives like a mexican!

 

[d33ps1x]

deluca2799 once bubbled...


Thanks for the driving tips!

My buddy is driving and he drives like a mexican!

Si si!

 

[daylight]

boydski,
I must confess it was I. We had three great days in the caves. I did some additional caves with an individual from NC who happened along. One of these days, I'm going to just decide to stay down there and become a cave bum.
Larry

 

[boydski]

Larry,

It's a small world, isn't it!

 

[Pez de Diablo]

Great pictures!

The road from the highway to Dos Oyos is only about 6kms, though it feels like 20kms They have actualy fixed it up this year.

 

[d33ps1x]

I'd hate to have seen it before! hehe

I learned one very valuable lesson. A dodge neon is not a great rental car for Cenotes diving.

I'm just glad the rental place doesn't look UNDER the car on the return inspection.

 

[adder70]

Thanks for the driving tips!

My buddy is driving and he drives like a mexican!

Yeah, ya better really hope that's not your car!

Actually, give me good "Fo'ba'fo" and let me at that road. That sounds like fun!