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Steps – 9,644
Considering the many times Chris and I have been to Mexico,
we’ve never been to Cozumel. We’ve seen Cozumel across the water when we’ve
been in mainland Mexico, but today is the first time we’re actually on the
island of Cozumel.
I expected Cozumel to be more flashy and contrived,
but it is pretty authentic – certainly touristy, but rougher and grittier than
I expected.
divers' bubbles
Our tour started today with a lot of hurry up
and wait. The walk from the ship to the meeting point 
reef
on the pier was far –
this is fine, we like to walk, but then all of the 32 9an unusually large
number for a tour in our experience) of us had to fill out waivers. It is RARE
that we do this on tours, I’m fine with it, but it takes FOREVER. Eventually,
Chris snapped and bought a beer ($3USD) from a corner store type place in the
port while we waited.
There are 7 ships docked in Cozumel today – we figured
that was at least 30,000 people 9 including staff in port. Chula, our guide
explains that this is high 
fish!
season, and that during this time, 7 is typical.
An hour after our original meeting time we are
finally on with the tour.
Our first activity is in a semi-submersible vessel.
We go to the lower deck of a boat where we each have a viewing window
port beer
just a
few feet below the water’s surface. Although we really didn’t see anything extraordinary,
just looking at a reef and listening to Cesar’s (our guide) commentary is
interesting. We saw lots of fish, jelly fish, different kinds of corals and
scuba divers. It was pretty interesting to see the divers.
Mayan math lesson
Next, we visited the Mayan Cacao Company about a
15-minute drive away. Here we saw how chocolate is made from cacao. We also
learned about the ancient Mayans. We sampled fresh chocolate, this was
excellent. The taste was
tequila tasting
delicious, but the texture was also great. We topped
this off with a chocolate margarita.
Our last stop was a tequila tasting seminar where we tasted and did a bit of shopping. I bought a hibiscus flavoured tequila – yum!
We found a place near the pier for a couple of
beers and a quesadilla. This
chocolate margaritas
came with a small dish of sauce described by the
waiter as ‘habanero piquante’. I like spice and think I can take a bit of heat,
however…I’m in Mexico and this stuff was muy caliente! It wasn’t just heat
though, it was heat and flavour…bueno!
chocolate lesson
We wandered around the area just outside the
pier and found another other place for one last cervesa.
We were back onboard around 4:00, found a light
snack from the ‘coffee connection’. This place is open from early morning until
6 with a coffee bar and light bites.
Mayan fertility sculpture
We ate and relaxed on our balcony admiring the
Cozumel activity.
banos art
A short nap later and we had dinner at the ship’s
Italian restaurant. We hoped there would be space to eat outside and we were in
luck.
A quick after dinner drink and a pass on the guest performer’s
John Denver show. We watched sail away from our balcony.
had to happen eventually 
margarita swinging
1 comment:
Now you have to find a new start word for Wordle - lol! Looks like a great day!
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