just back from Cozumel

Hi to all, I just got back from our family vacation in Mexico. Spent the first five days in Cancun, last six days in Cozumel. Didnt realy care for Cancun much at all, everyone seemed a bit unfriendly, sometimes even borderline hostile. Did the Chichen-Itza ruins, Tulum ruins, felt realy bad for the people there trying to survive on whatever they could make selling trinkets. The two things we did that was a lot of fun were the pirate dinner cruise, and X-Caret park, would recomend those to anyone. Ahh Cozumel, should have spent all of our vacation there. Did two days of two tank diving with Alsora Divers, realy wonderful group of peaple, they met us at the airport and helped with customw and also made sure we got transportation to the farey for a fair price. We used large capacity steel tanks, mandatory dive computers that they will loan you if you dont own one, fast boats with a max of six divers per boat, all divers are grouped by experiance, bottom time was for 60 minutes plus. Dive masters were excellant, and patient with all the new divers. Being larger in size I used my air a bit faster than the others, again the divemaster maximized bottom time for the group by sharing his air with me. I cant say enough good about Alsora Divers. I doubt that I will ever go back to Cancun, but will definately try to make it back to Cozumel many more times. Hope everyone is doing good, thought an update to the board was due. God bless all

Hi Earl, Sounds like you had a wonderful time. I can't wait to finish up my cert so I can join in the fun also. Jen

Thanks for the update Earl. I am itching to get back in the water. Haven't been to Cozumel, but I absolutly love Belize, and highly reccomend it as a great vis dive spot. Calm seas and good vis to all ~ Ileana

I have to reply to my own post, kinda like talking to myself, oh well I guess I'm never alone. The name of the dive operator that I highly recomend is Aldora Divers, not alsora divers. Darned fat fingers anyway. My apologise to the wonderful peaple at Aldora!

Earl- yer funny Ileana- I have to agree with you on Belize. We have great diving here. Great vis most of the time. Where all did you dive in Belize? If you come back make sure to look me up. I live down in Sittee River. My husband does snorkel trips and we do fun dives with friends If you or anyone is interested in hookin up let me know. http://www.belizebyhorace.com http://www.sitteeriver.net Cozumel has pretty nice diving too. I really really enjoyed our time there!! Take care all and hope to see you in Belize someday

Hi Ileana and Sharon, and whoever else is dropping in, I've wondered if Belize would be good, and while on vacation I asked our divemaster about several places. His highest recamendation was Cuba,"with a huge grin on his face", he was not so glowing about Belize however, maybe some regional rivalry or something, his comments were, peaple there not friendly at all, is o.k. if you dont mind sitting in a corner to gaurd your back, or constantly looking over your shoulder to see if the locals are pulling out the knives. Maybe he has had a terrible experiance that realy tramatized him and left some scars, I dont know. But from the sounds of your posts this might not be the case, so please let me know if it's ok to let my gaurd down and relax in Belize. How many differant places have you ladies been diving, and were would you recomend and why? You you probably didnt think this would turn into a game of twenty gazillion questions did you? Its nice hearing from everybody, and no I"m not lonely, I'm just a bit social. Later gator

Belize is just fine. No one is pulling knives and the locals are very friendly. Sure, like anywhere there are some not so great spots but you just avoid those. Who knows what went on with that divemaster. Anyhoo...the diving here is great, and most everyone is super friendly. Come on down and check it out for yourself. Later

Hi Earl, I'm glad you had a good time in my back yard, Cozumel. I came here 6 years ago on a 3 day dive trip with Aldora. Liked it so much I built a place and moved here 5 years ago. I took a trip to Belize, but I have to admit it's not as good as Cozumel as far as visbility and huge coral formations. I did see some huge whale sharks in Belize so that kind of made up for the visibility and other stuff. I found the people there friendly, and I wasnt ever worried about safety. I would go back someday, but living in Cozumel it's kind of hard to justify travelling anywhere to go on a dive trip. DavidG