Also, I enjoyed some of the wreck and reef dives. I'd skip the underwater park.
Isla Mujeres Recommendations Please
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That's interesting, ten years ago I didn't think anyone knew commercially about the area north of Isla that is now known as the largest aggregation site of whale sharks on the planet, I would have thought ten years ago you would have ended up being boated over to Holbox which was still 'the' place to see them, but maybe you were right on the cusp of the whole change over, before it turned?
Do you remember what the water was like? Holbox is notoriously green and low viz with lots of plankton in the water, the northern area from Isla you would be in blue ocean water with great viz.
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North of Isla Mujeres
It was actually in 2004 that I visited Isla Mujeres, now that I think about it. I don't think anyone on Isla Mujeres was doing much in the way of "commercially" promoting whaleshark outings. Holbox was what was initially recommended to me for seeing whalesharks. But then I ran into someone who said he knew a guy who could take me out to look for whalesharks. Had I not had stumbled onto the whaleshark outing from Isla Mujeres, I suppose I would have gone back to the mainland and taken a bus to wherever the normal jumping off point to Holbox is. (From Google Maps, that looks like it would be a place called Chiquilá.)
From your photos, it looks like Isla Mujeres is the better choice.
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