I´m at an internet cafe in Zihuatanejo now. I went snorkeling this morning at Manzanillo Beach and also at Los Gatos beach. Both were disappointing. The water was very cloudy, possibly due to hurricane Henriette passing by over the weekend. We got LOTs of rain from that for 3 days, but no wind thankfully. It´s been sunny and clear yesterday and today. I´m returning home tomorrow evening.
I took some underwater photos, but due to the water conditions (and quality of disposable camera), they´re likely to be disappointing. I took many good above water photos with my digital camera, though. The highlight of the snorkeling was at Los Gatos where a group of purple wrasses with a yellow band behind their head swam up to me and inspected me. They swam to within a foot my mask, looking me up and down. There was around 10 of them together. There was no coral at Los Gatos, a little (mostly dead) at Manzanillo. I saw a few very large blennies at Manzanillo, around 8 inches long. I got a few pics of them, but they were on the rocks, so they were deeper and in darker water as a result.
The scenery is quite beautiful here. It´s pure jungle around the town, everything is so green. It´s offseason now so restaurants are all about empty when we show up. One of them right on the beach had to turn on the lights for us Friday night around 8pm, there was no one else there. It was delicious food, too.
