In Reply to: My year behind the lens. posted by Chuck Tribole on December 31, 2011 at 15:58:21:

COZUMEL – AUGUST 2023 – YEAR OF CELEBRATION


Once again, Deborah, I, many of our friends and relatives returned to Cozumel, Mexico, for warm water scuba diving, sun, and fun - an annual affair for over thirty years. We have always stayed at Scuba Club Cozumel – our home away from home. Life is good.

Scuba Club Cozumel website; check it out.

Mike/Ingrid, Mark/Lucianna, and Doug/Jodi joined us early in our vacation. Many others appeared over the following three weeks, which included a surprise celebration. Read on.

We arrived at the hotel before lunch, unpacked a few t-shirts, bathing suits, and dive gear; did a short shore dive in front of the hotel to check out our equipment and my camera in anticipation of the next day's boat dives.

Water temperature was 83-84 degrees F the entire time we were there - normal for that time of year. Visibility varied but was somewhat milky and less than the normal 100 feet – perhaps due to changing currents sweeping silt up from the shallows. Daytime temperatures were in the low nineties with high humidity – much cooler than some parts of the US. We experienced a few thunder storms but none of them interfered with the diving.

SHORE DIVE

Red lionfish (Pterois volitans). Invasive to the Atlantic and Carribean. Juveniles are black, adults are red.