We had a great time – as always – great service at the resort and fun dives with the crew. Greatly appreciate Mariano and Daniel as our dive guides (and Fernando), who helped us find wonderful things to shoot photos of. I was using my Inon S2000 for the very first time and had a blast with it and my TG6. We got in 4 days of diving and were blown out on 2 days. Evidently there is an opposite of a norte but I don’t think they call it a soute! The port closed all of one day, and reopened the next day at 1:30 – too late for us to get our dives in.
I got a nice shot of a juvenile thuridilla - which is a painted elysia, as far as I can tell. But this one, instead of being the typical red/blue/white was pink/blue/orange - and looked like thread in the sand until I got my camera on it. I posted it on ID Please (a FB page) and I got a message from someone asking if they could use it in the next critter ID book. Of course I said yes, but haven't heard back from them. Maybe they found a better shot - but I'm still absolutely tickled pink (pun intended). First picture below. I really like the tiny stuff - wish my eyes were a bit better.
Covid test – it was included in the cost of the resort package and was easy. We scheduled it ahead of time and showed up a few minutes early and were in and out (brains scratched) within 20 minutes. We flew American Airlines and used the VeriFLY app, which really streamlined the process.
We did a night dive on Paradise and I got some good shots. Unfortunately, I had the WORST mask fog EVER! Ya know how baseball players have a ritual or ‘lucky socks’ or what-have-you? I have a process. I deviated from the process. I’ll never do that again. What I do, works really well. I don’t know why I deviated. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
We left the resort for some tooling around town. We had coffee at Rockin Java – nice. On another evening we went to No Name Bar for cocktails at sunset – also nice. Cozumel is a great little island that we just might retire to someday.
I got a nice shot of a juvenile thuridilla - which is a painted elysia, as far as I can tell. But this one, instead of being the typical red/blue/white was pink/blue/orange - and looked like thread in the sand until I got my camera on it. I posted it on ID Please (a FB page) and I got a message from someone asking if they could use it in the next critter ID book. Of course I said yes, but haven't heard back from them. Maybe they found a better shot - but I'm still absolutely tickled pink (pun intended). First picture below. I really like the tiny stuff - wish my eyes were a bit better.
Covid test – it was included in the cost of the resort package and was easy. We scheduled it ahead of time and showed up a few minutes early and were in and out (brains scratched) within 20 minutes. We flew American Airlines and used the VeriFLY app, which really streamlined the process.
We did a night dive on Paradise and I got some good shots. Unfortunately, I had the WORST mask fog EVER! Ya know how baseball players have a ritual or ‘lucky socks’ or what-have-you? I have a process. I deviated from the process. I’ll never do that again. What I do, works really well. I don’t know why I deviated. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
We left the resort for some tooling around town. We had coffee at Rockin Java – nice. On another evening we went to No Name Bar for cocktails at sunset – also nice. Cozumel is a great little island that we just might retire to someday.