Cave Diving ..and Salsa lessons?

We finally went diving and did our warm up dive in Camillo. All I can say is wow...has the ranch changed. First the Senora who owns the ranch with the cave we wanted to dive said...sure, it is ok to dive, just pay whoever is there. The front of the place doesn't even look the same, they built a big wall and there is a guard. We had to sign his manifest to pass....and he didn't seem to want to take our money? We made it past him, and then the guys who live in the buildings that used to be the chicken coops come out. After afew words with them we pass, and they didn't want our money either...weird. So we drive up the rode, which they are working on, and John exclaims, " you have got to be s******g me!" In front of us was a huge mound of dirt, even with the 4X4 truck it would be really hard to go over it....so of course John, can't be defeated, goes around the mound forging his own trail.

We finally make it to the cenote and guess what...the ladder has 2 rungs...there would be no way for us to get out of the water. Again, not to be defeated, I find one of the old rungs that was tossed into the bushes and John used wire to fasten the thing on the ladder...we are in business!

Needless to say, our first dive, was just that...a first dive. Our friends who dive down here will know what we mean. And after all that we did a 75 minute dive with scooters and I had to call it because of sinus squeeze....I thought my head would explode.

For dinner we decided to dine at a new restaurant on the Tulum beach. We met some guys we know from CA the other night and they mentioned salsa lessons at the restaurant we wanted to try. It turned out that have them on Sunday night...and they are free. We did not participate this time, but one Sunday before we leave I will...notice I said I:) . Watching the lessons was a lot of fun....plus the food was good. La Zebra on the Tulum beach...add that to your list of places try....it is right on the beach near the Sian Kaan biosphere.