Temple temple all around
29 May 2018
We have arrived at Cozumel island 🌴 just a few short miles from the main land of Mexico 🇲🇽 .The water is 6 metres deep here but it so clear it is just like looking into a swimming pool 🏊♂️, it is not an ideal place for snorkelling because it is mainly a sandy bottom, with very few fish around. The town gets 4 or 5 cruise ships a day, that's up to ten thousand people which creates its own problems with the locals mobbing every person who looks like a tourist, we think they don't really want small boats ⛵️like ours here, so they seem to make everything so difficult, from things like, no dinghy dock (which makes it easy to get ashore from anchor) no dinghy landing areas, so it's very rough and slightly risky getting out when we get to shore (there is very little beach area) very few people speak anything other than Spanish (Mexican) they just smile 😊 and look dumbly at us, which frustrates me an awful lot.
We caught the water taxi 🚕 across to Playa Del Carmen where we then took a communal taxi to another Maya settlement, the buildings were all very near to the cliff edge and the sea, there were 168 steps down to the beach, which I walked down and spent about 30 minutes walking around. There were many iguanas 🦎 running everywhere, some were over 1 metre long and very impressive, one even stood guard over one of the many buildings. I had to almost fight my way around due to all the tourists (I know that I'm also a tourist) which spoilt the experience a little, the buildings were not as big or impressive as the ones i went to in Belize 🇧🇿 but for their age it's amazing how they were built.