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Recently I went to a beach resort in Mexico, and thats why I have been offline for the past two weeks. The resort is about 100 miles south of Cancun, and the beach faced eastward onto one of the biggest coral reefs in the Caribbean. I had been snorkeling many times on that reef and saw some pretty neat stuff, like a sea turtle, a school of 30 fish each no shorter than 9 inches in length, and other stuff.
So what that was all building up to was the curiousity of my dad. So one morning, I was shaken to conciousness at 7 in the morning when my dad asked my family to go on a little morning beach walk. I said yes thinking it was going to be a leisurely stroll. What I didn’t know was that my dad’s idea of a morning walk was a 4 mile total trek along sharp pieces of coral and through masses of washed up seaweed.
Lucky for me, I had thought to bring my new camera and capture our walk. So here is a play-by-play of how it went down.
We started out going north along the beach towards the Tulum ruins that ran along the sea about 3 miles up. Unfortunately we never got that far, but I did get a shot towards the beginning of our journey of the lookout building on a cliff.
This picture of the ruins is enlarged so you can actually make out the ruins. It is the tiny tan square in the middle near the dip in the terrain on the right side.
And so continued our journey until we reached a mini peninsula (i know, how ironic! A peninsula on a peninsula). Here were all kinds of little wonders, such as a pelican and an abandoned hotel.
I named this pelican Rogelio, which is the mexican version of Roger, and it also sounded cool. But he was just floating there in the sea. Shortly after I took the picture, he flew away *sniff*.
This is an abandoned hotel that is visible from my resort, but not to the point where you could identify the status of it. My best guess is that it was evacuated around the time the hurricanes passed there last year and was never re-opened. My dad, however thinks that a third story was being added to the building, and then it was just abandoned halfway through (if you look close enough at the top story, you can see that it is unfinished and doesn’t have any glass in the window holes). I didn’t have time to explore though because my dad was dragging me onward as I was about to take another picture.
About 200 yards further ahead, we encountered what appeared to be the rest of the resort to the hotels we saw earlier. It appeared to be just a lagoon with buildings next to it. However, upon closer look, my dad determined it to be the entrance to an underwater cave, or a cenote as called it Mexico. On the surface, the point where the freshwater met the sea water was what gave it away. The water looked slightly oily and had many ripples on the top. Below is the picture I took of the entrance. Please ignore my kid brother and mom in the background.
At that point, it was determined that we were to go back, but before we did, I got a better and closer picture of the ruins, which you can see below.
And so we continued back to the mini peninsula to find another pelican just sitting on a rock in the sea. I thought that this was an instant photo oppurtunity, and I took it. So below is a picture of Rogelio’s friend that I have named Pablo, cause that name sounds really Mexican.
On the way back, there was nothing new to see because we had seen all of it on the way there. The only exception was that the tide had gone out and now a sea sponge was visible.
This thing was anchored on a rock underneath, so it wasn’t going anywhere, but it must have been a heavy rock if it held this down. The sponge must have been the size of a kitchen oven! And being that it was alive, it retained its squishy quality that gave it its name. It was like touching a gigantic kitchen sponge.
Just for laughs I threw in this picture that I took toward the end of the trek. It is of my little brother and my dad in the picture.
I call it: Brokeback Beach
When I got back to my hotel room, my family emptied their arms of their findings. Laid on the table is all of the things we found on that beach walk.
Going from left to right here is a list of whats in the picture: A huge conch shell, another smaller but still large conch shell, a piece of dead fan coral and the rock it grew on, a dead urchin "skull", a weird nut that some Mexican guy on the beach gave us, three more urchin skulls (the middle one is probably from a young one), and lastly a branch of coral (which may look like a regular tree branch but is actually jet black and smooth).
And my last picture is just to give you an idea of how big the largest conch shell actually was. So, I took a picture of the shell next to a pair of sunglasses.
So that’s it. I didn’t really think to take anymore pictures at the time, so this is all I have. However it was fun and I recommend it to everyone as a hobbie.
So below is a picture of Rogelio’s friend that I have named Pablo, cause that name sounds really Mexican.
WTF do you mean that sounds really mexican?! i bet you are really fuckin white trailor trash if thats what you think mexican is!! a really mexican name is more like juan-mario phillipe de la garza-camacho. see, that name right there is so mexican that border patrol wouldnt let him in even if he let them all bang his wife maria, carlita vialobos de la garza-camacho. lol. i’d know, im mexican
Jul 08, 2006 7:23 am - why the fuck did you not hire a tank and go into the underwater cave? or even ATTEMT a dive with no tank? i mean, wtf????? and an abandoned hotel with no fences.... EXPLORE ITTTTTTT!!!!!! 5* anyway dude
Jul 08, 2006 11:21 am - kind of gay........ what i would be doing instead of wasting my time with that bullshit is going to some bars and fucking latino girls cuz theres no drinking age in mexico....
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