DMBillies
Active member
Hi all-
We've been pretty scarce in these parts lately. One of those reasons is that we were on vacation for the last week. I just got some of my snorkeling pics developed and I thought I'd share a few from that and the cruise more broadly (we left Mobile, went to Cozumel, then to Calica -or Playa Del Carmen, and back to Mobile).
http://picasaweb.google.com/BBsReef/Cozumel#
All of the underwater pics are from about 20-60 feet off of the beach right out from 1/2 Senor Frogs (a bar with steps leading down to the water). It was the easiest place to get access to the water and we did not have a ton of time so I did I was very surprised by how much I saw so close to such a busy area. Some of them are a bit blurry, but not too bad overall. BTW visibility was ridiculous good... however you measure that.
Later on the same day I found a place where I could swim around a little farther and get into deeper water far away from the beach (maybe 30-40 feet). Unfortunately I didn't take the camera with me on that little excursion because there was a lot of cool stuff there. I saw a big Brain Coral about the size of a large beach ball and some kind of big branching coral that was a few feet taller than me from top to bottom and about 4-5' in circumference near the base.
One of the pics in that album is of a cavern. We were actually able to snorkel in the cavern and it was awesome. We were swimming through little openings and through stalactites hanging from the ceiling. There were also a bunch of little cave catfish and guppies in there. The water in the cave was amazingly clear and really the whole experience was kind of surreal (not to mention it was something that I don't think they'd ever let you do in the U.S.). I thought I got some underwater pictures of that but apparently my camera ran out of film but let me keep winding it as if it hadn't (boo!). I thought it was a 36 exposure but apparently it was only 24.
Anywho... I hope you all enjoy...
We've been pretty scarce in these parts lately. One of those reasons is that we were on vacation for the last week. I just got some of my snorkeling pics developed and I thought I'd share a few from that and the cruise more broadly (we left Mobile, went to Cozumel, then to Calica -or Playa Del Carmen, and back to Mobile).
http://picasaweb.google.com/BBsReef/Cozumel#
All of the underwater pics are from about 20-60 feet off of the beach right out from 1/2 Senor Frogs (a bar with steps leading down to the water). It was the easiest place to get access to the water and we did not have a ton of time so I did I was very surprised by how much I saw so close to such a busy area. Some of them are a bit blurry, but not too bad overall. BTW visibility was ridiculous good... however you measure that.
Later on the same day I found a place where I could swim around a little farther and get into deeper water far away from the beach (maybe 30-40 feet). Unfortunately I didn't take the camera with me on that little excursion because there was a lot of cool stuff there. I saw a big Brain Coral about the size of a large beach ball and some kind of big branching coral that was a few feet taller than me from top to bottom and about 4-5' in circumference near the base.
One of the pics in that album is of a cavern. We were actually able to snorkel in the cavern and it was awesome. We were swimming through little openings and through stalactites hanging from the ceiling. There were also a bunch of little cave catfish and guppies in there. The water in the cave was amazingly clear and really the whole experience was kind of surreal (not to mention it was something that I don't think they'd ever let you do in the U.S.). I thought I got some underwater pictures of that but apparently my camera ran out of film but let me keep winding it as if it hadn't (boo!). I thought it was a 36 exposure but apparently it was only 24.
Anywho... I hope you all enjoy...
