More Cenote Diving in Tulum, Yucatan.
Today on the menu: famous El Pit in the jungle, and Casa Cenote close to the sea.
El Pit is, as the name suggests, a hole in the ground, similar to Angelita yesterday, but way bigger and spacious, also the light is different, because you have clear water from the surface down to the bottom. Creepiness is similar, though, at the Pit the bottom looks like a forest, where you feel like little Red Riding Hood waiting for the wolf to come around the bend.
Casa, on the opposite side of the spectrum, is a very shallow site, filled with daylight, and mangrove roots reaching down into the water from the surface.
So let's do it again!
As always, dive site briefing.
This is your entry point, simply walk down the stairs with all your equipment on, and jump from the platform...;-)
Then we get into the water again. Multilevel diving, drop to the bottom, watch your NDL, then level up to the exit again
Wow, this is a huge hole in the ground! What a dive.
Water, Banana and Granola bars for the surface time again.
We drive to Casa Cenote, which is also a frequented swimming and snorkeling spot. The entry area looks like a tropical swimming pool, white sand on the bottom makes the water look very inviting.
Agai you walk from the parking lot with all your equipment on, sit down on the rocks to put your fins on, and slip into the water. Shallow, it's 4 meters deep here in the pool. As you proceed into the mangroves, there are many haloclines, small spots where waters of different salinities mix. Also some small fish and crabs.
Rumors go there is a crocodile in the mangroves, but I didn't see it...
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| As mentioned above: It's a snorkeling place, too |
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| And this is how the crocodile sees you, if you snorkel... |
We have some time left, so we go to the entrance to the sea, under the street,
the two dives could not have been more different.
Back in Tulum I take more pictures during lunchat La Querida and coffee at Ki'Bok, murals and persons, this time concentrating more on las caras, faces of Tulum.
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| The kids are allright |
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| She IS beautiful |
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| He THINKS he is beautiful |
paint your walls...
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| ...expose yourself to art |
I move into Art Hotel Tulum, pay one night, bring my bags to the room, get out across the street to a small market "Aqui es Guerrero" for two cans of beer and drink them in the hotel patio.
One hour later I go to the reception and book two more nights, this place is inspiring, much more than the classical, family-run mexican Posada, where I was before.
I book a two tank dive at the MUSA underwater museum with Manta Divers in Cancun for tomorrow.
No diving without advance online payment, 81 US$ for the dives and 7US$ for a wetsuit. More on that tomorrow...
Later at the Batey, I keep taking pictures.
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| She never smiles |
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| He always smiles |
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| She is far more beautiful than in this picture |
What a wonderful day!
See you under water
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