" that cave just doesn't want to be dove"

I had ear issues again so we stayed out of the cave. We went to Playa Del Carmen as we put together all the paperwork to present to the immigration office so John can get out of the country. When we crossed the border John's FM3 was stamped and when we got into the state of Q. Roo we had to go to the immigration office and get it stamped there, since that is our destination. The official informed us that the people at the border in Tamaulipas (the Mexican state we crossed into) had stamped it in the wrong place. So we had to write a letter, Fernando had to write a letter, we had to fill out paper work and make copies of all John's documents.

Since we weren't diving we decided to take care of all that yesterday. The good news is we have all that done, the bad news is we have to made a trip to Playa next week because we got there to late. Although it is open from 9-4, you have to be in the door by 1pm. We missed that part.

We stopped by Zero Gravity (a dive shop run by the GUE guys) to say hello to Fred Devos on our way back to Tulum. We started talking about the difficulty we have had in diving Camillo, and he made a statement that I really liked. He said, " It seems that cave does not want to be dove." Perfect, it seems they had also tried to dive it and were not able to complete the dive.

So this morning...with my ear not getting any better, and now John is not feeling well, we may put off diving the cave one more day. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but we have purchased tickets to return home on March 8 so there is some added pressure to get into the cave an finish the survey. The return date is subject to change, but the tickets are purchased.

We will see if we dive the cave a bit later today, or if it "does not want to be dove"

Karen and John