The dive day that was invisible, Cozumel Day 3. All night what sounded like a floor waxing machine turned out to be the wind howling through our storm shutters. That wind didn't stop for the whole day and more importantly didn't stop in the morning to cancel all the dive boats. What do you do in Cozumel when you can't dive, well you geocache of course! First stop of the morning was finding at least one geocache so we could at to our trophy list.
Even though it was windy, walking around in 70+ temps with the sun beating down took more energy then I liked. Our mission ended with one find, then we retired. I headed to the pool for some much needed sun on the rest of my body that the wetsuit covers and Becca headed for a nap.
Lunch time proved there were many anxious divers ready to go, but no hope for a boat dive with the conditions, so a shore dive was scheduled. Becca sat this dive out to rest her ears and did her impression of the little deck hands on the dive boats running around helping everyone. For being a shore dive and one not over any kind of coral reef, it turned into a very enjoyable dive. For one thing even though the waves were smashing into the seawall, once under, there was very little current. It was nice to be able to stop and hover to really check something out. For what I can only describe as a vast dessert of white crushed coral bottom, it had a surprising amount of life in it. There would be little formations of something, for example an old part of an engine block, which would have all kinds of life around it. In that example in addition to the ten fish around it also was home to a spotted moray eel. Another example was a natural coral piece the size of a basketball with two lobsters calling it home and again this small city of life all around that basketball and thirty feet around it nothing but dessert. It went on like that over and over again, a sea snake, small sting ray, puffers, and the splendid toadfish (which is what is in this picture). So just like my boat dives, this splendid toadfish is invisible.
The day ended with us as a group, well about 20 of us, going into town for dinner as a change of pace from the all inclusive food of the resort. I thought the food was decent, but it actually really wasn't any better then the food at the resort in my opinion. It was fun to get out and socialize a bit more. I met the opposite of my parents tonight, they are retired and have traveled to about every corner of the globe it seems like. I believe their daughter said they go someplace new every six weeks, maybe that was a joke, but it sure seemed like it. They both are a walking travel encyclopedia.
My invisible dive fish:
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