Monday, November 21, 2011

So it has been almost a year since....

I updated the blog. We are back in Mexico for two weeks. I like being down here at Thanksgiving...not sure where we are eating yet on the actuall holiday, but I look forward to it just the same. Worse case, I will have chicken and re-brand it turkey for the meal!

Was here in April but didn't blog at all. Diving, slow internet and sitting on the beach interfered with blogging schedule.

So what the heck have we been doing for 3 days? Well, we had an awesome welcome to Mexico meal at Casa Cenote, an over two hour shakedown dive in Chan Hol day 1, dinner at the Pub in Puerto, a lazy Sunday with BBQ, margaritas, and friends at Casa Cenote again, and I was able to encroach on some friends (thanks Peter, Lynne and Ben) and join them for diving in Maya Blue today.

Our plan is to finally get into Camillo tomorrow to do a shakedown dive on the rebreathers. That was the plan today, but John took a nasty fall with a stage before the Chan Hol dive and he landed his bony arse on a very sharp rock...not to mention his head on the tank, so he wasn't up for a 5 hour dive today. So he relaxed, fixed stuff around the room...very important things like the toilet, water pressure, and a leaky water container. One thing about Mexico is there is always something and if you get all bent out of shape about it ...well, you all know what happens...nothing good, so just go with the flow....or lack of if we are talking about our toilet...hahaa.

Anyway, I went away and had a nice dive today at Mayan Blue (a cave system south of Tulum). It may very well have been the busiest cave diving parking lot I have seen in a long time. Cool thing was, once you got past the line to get into the cenote, we actually didn't see any divers on the dive except our team. That may have been because the guy running the line took us through a little known crack to get to the main line in B tunnel. All I can say is that was way cool, and we had a really nice beautiful dive. Back at the cenote, there again was a line of divers to exit but we were at the front and beat feet through the light rain to de-kit ourselves of gear.

Ton of sidemount divers, that practice is really taking off. Ya kinda feel old school in doubles, but I can live with that.

Well, I have to get to work on gear if we are going to go tomorrow....pull my weight and all that :)

Happy Monday everyone...at least it is down in Quintana Roo (for my non-diving friends, that is the state of Mexico where Cancun, Tulum, Akumal and Puerto are located).

Karen