cozumel - Blogabond

So finally! the caribbean sea! and an island...time to reeeeelax.
Or so we thought...since we wanted to take our diving certificate here we first went around looking for what dive operator to choose. After seeing three we went for one called Deep Blue. We were suppose to be back the day after at 9.30 for our first lesson and dive.

Since we are in the caribbeans we are dying to get into the water, sadly enough there is no real beach in town, they are further away, and the most beautiful ones on the other side of the island. So we go to a bar that lies by the sea and they have a pier you can jump from, they nicely let us swim there without paying. the water is turquoise and beautiful...and extremely warm, around 27 degrees...very very nice...

Ok, back at the dive shop at 9.30, we meet our instructor Luis, he talks about what we are gonna do and then we get into a car that takes us to the dive site. Once there He goes through the primary stuff one needs to know about diving and information about pressure under water and alot of things. Then it is time to gear up,

and we go through all the stuff we are going to use. We slowly enter the water and then go under to feel how it is to breath through the tank, it feels strange but fine. We do some exercises under water
and then we follow Luis around on shallow depth looking at some fish and we even see a seahorse, really cool. The rest of our days (the course is suppose to take 4 days, but we get delayed because of bad weather one day) we spend doing theoretical exams, reading and doing 5 dives in total before getting our certification.

Agnes: "For my side, the training has been a little bit more painful... It is actually quite weird to breathe through the stuff and i freaked out a bit on the first time we went under water...
I had quite a few problems doing some of the exercises but at the end I managed to do it all! But our poor instructor had to take twice the time with me..."

We did some other things during our stay in cozumel, but since we had the diving in the morning, we did not do much else than some snorkeling and walking around in town. The day when our dive got cancelled because of bad weather we rented a scooter and drove around the island, it was windy, but beautiful. We stopped on the other side of the island on a deserted beach and had a swim, it was really like paradise!

And finally, the day we had been waiting for, as certified divers, to go with a boat and dive among the coral reefs of cozumel. We are going to do 2 tank dives, which is pretty

much 2 times 40 minutes. We enter the water through the boat and then descend to another world.

We drift with the current at 24 meters deep and it is so much like meditation, it is quiet and beautiful, it is very hard to describe the feeling, it has to be experienced.

we see alot of colorful fish, we bought a cheap waterproof camera before the dive, so we have some pictures, but the flash did not work on the second dive so some af the pictures miss color, since at depth in the water you need flash to see the color properly.
there was huge parrotfish, 2 big turtles, stingrays, doris from Nemo(a blue fish), a huge green moray eel, and a lot of other beautiful fish that we dont know the name of. On the

descent of the second dive I (ola) spotted a beautiful barracuda that the other people missed and Agnes was the only one to see a shark (a nurse shark). After the dive all of us had such a nice feeling, and we just wanted to go back down. Diving is truly a wonderful experience and now we cant wait till the next time we can go diving (Thailand!!!).

Agnes: "I was the same as Ola, absolutely amazed by this underwater world and I had such a great time while diving... It was quite difficult to face my fears and to do the certificate, but once down in the water, you forget about everything and you just enjoy! I really loved it and I can´t wait to do it again... Especially knowing that i was the one the most scared about seeing dangerous fishes and I actually was the only one to see the shark!! pretty cool! and I was not even scared (maybe because it was sleeping!!)
Anyway, the whole experience was wonderful....!!!"

So now we are in Chichen Itza(maya ruins) and tomorrow we are heading towards Taxco close to Mexico City.

Lots of salty wet hugs and kisses from Ola and Agnes

written by

agnesola on October 27, 2007 from San Miguel de Cozumel, Mexico

from the travel blog: Baby and Baby's around the world travel...

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ca dois etre super de voir des tortue!!!!!!!!
profitesant bien!!!
gros bisous

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