Cozumel Day 1

The dive part of day 1 is now complete, two more are in the books. The first dive is where these clips took place. The first surprise fish were two good sized barracudas, much larger then the baby one Becca and I had seen in Maui. I would guess 2, maybe 3 feet in length. No sooner did I get done filming them, then I turned around and saw what I can only describe as "mom"! She was huge! In the video it's really hard to get a frame of reference, but I'd say she was a good 5 feet of fish! There definitely was a moment for thought of "loss of limb would be very possible". Turns out that a school of divers is very intimidating, so she backed off.

The special fish on today's spotted list were a sliver of tail of a nurse shark, those barracudas, a sting ray, lobster, and something I have to look up but for now I'm calling a two tailed star fish. Previewing my video, I'm very happy with how it's looking. The filter on it makes it look so much better! My only complaint so far is very dive is a drift dive. It's great because almost the only time kicks are needed is to avoid coral formations. The down side, is if something cool is spotted, you are most likely going by it without much time to concentrate on it. It reminds me of those first generation of movies where the stage coach was real and the background was spinning behind them, that's almost what it feels like.

The first dive also included a fun zig zag in a coral formation cave. Becca already wants to punch one of the other divers in our group in the face because for some reason he decided to climb over her to follow me. I think it's just because my butt looks so good, but she wasn't overly thrilled with him. She happened to be taking video herself and it's not only did he definitely climbed over her, but a few choice words can be heard through her regulator (we'll just edit that part out of the video). On part I particularly enjoyed was looking back to check on Becca to see her "shivering". Keep in mind, I'm sure the water temp was 80, her days of diving Michigan may be long gone!

The second dive didn't have anything "cool" happen, but that isn't being fair either. The world down there is absolutely unreal. I could probably dive the same spot over and over again and you'd still see something new every time. Oh, I guess something memorable did happen now that I think of it. My fancy hat, well it's not a permanent souvenir of Cozumel. A wind gust got me on the boat and sent it sailing! Not sure what it is this trip, but already of all the stupid things are happening to me!

We got back to the hotel around 1 in the afternoon. Becca was feeling a little jet lag, so we decided not to do the afternoon dive today. It worked out well because it gave me time to checkout my video and get an idea how it turned out. Initial reports, I think I'm going to be super happy with it. Oh, by the way, as I'm typing this blog, I'm sitting on my patio, slight breeze, overlooking the pool in 80 degree temps. Think it's 39 back home, call me when it gets to 80 and I may come back!

No idea what tonight is going to have on the agenda. I think we are going to relax and just enjoy it not officially being Monday tomorrow!