My critique is you rock! Great video. Loved the cuts back and forth with the aerials, great macros, nice close ups of eagle rays, smiling parrot fish... and a cozumel video that has fish in it! Seems every cozumel video I watch lately makes the place look like it's devoid of fish life, yours was the opposite.
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Hey, I was just thinking, you know what would be a really cool shot? If you could take your drone over a dive site and see what it looked like, with the clear waters of cozumel, I wonder if you could see the divers down 80 ft? That would be cool to see.
Thanks for the kudos
Yeah, if you take shots of just the deeper dives like Palancar, you may not see as many critters. That's what I see in a lot of vids. Nothing wrong with it, cause those dives to me are more for enjoying the grandeur of the structures. Matter of fact, I have some past vids dedicated to that such as my Devil's Throat vid.
It's also funny you mention the aerials of the dive sites. Me and Javier, the captain of Liquid Blue Divers boat, The Bonita Luna, had that exact conversation!. Maybe next time we'll try to get it done. Could be a real handy tool for us novices. Of course the locals have their "Mexican GPS" you know... "100 feet south of that clump of palm trees" :cheeky:
Sideways/Greg....
I a starting to plan trip to Cozumel at Thanksgiving. Traveling/diving with a buddy/girlfriend, Ginger. We're both single....50s, active women. I'd thought to stay at a DIVE resort. She wanted to book a package with air/hotel and book our diving separately. I hear you talking about staying closer to town and such. What would be your advice? We are going to dive. But we'd also like some other diversion.....not be only single people in a romantic place at night with couples around us.
Thanks! (And amazing photos...btw!)
Howdy Sunshine! Welcome to the board my fellow Angelino! I'm down in Huntington Beach. As far as planning your trip, we've done it both ways. For years we have stayed at The Blue Angel dive resort. They are a great hotel and dive op, right on the water, nice pool, great folks and dive op. You can't go wrong. The only downside for us was having to cab into town every afternoon and night. For us on our normal 2 week stay that's a couple hundred bucks, plus a hassle.
This year we decided to stay in town and dive with our new friends (we've actually known them over 3 years now). We stayed at the Casa Mexicana, it was only $71.00 a night for anything over a week. That included a beautiful room, a AWESOME breakfast buffet that had everything from eggs to order, to waffles, fruit, LOTS of stuff. The next convenience was walking out the front door and being able to walk to all of our normal spots. Our dive op we absolutely love. The Owners are awesome peeps! They're from the Chicago area and have owned the biz for a couple years now. I would describe it as top notch valet type service, which with us in our 50's is a big plus
As far as places to go for nightlife and the such, Cozumel is a pretty sleepy town after 5pm (when the cruise ship folks are running back to their ships). Having "Grown up" in Playa Del Carmen before diving, we sometimes miss the nightlife. In a perfect Caribbean world for us we would combine the nightlife of Playa, and the diving of Coz. Now, that all being said, I think you could still have lots of fun their, I do see lots of non couples when we're out and about. I hope that helps you in your decision, don't hesitate to ask anything! I'm sure you'll get multiple opinions on hotels and dive ops. As they say... variety is the spice of life, right? :cool2:
