Blogs from Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico, North America - page 7

Christmas Eve Eve is another beautiful day in paradise. Sunny with a few clouds, about 27 C and nice breeze. We debate whether to rent a scooter and go to the beach but in the end we decide to get the rest of our Christmas groceries at Super Mega since Ian has a scuba appointment tomorrow morning. We are stocking up in preparation for Gord and his friend Marty who arrive tomorrow night. We expect it to be very busy in the store and it was busy, but not crazy. Although we already have our turkey in the fridge defrosting, we still manage to have our largest grocery purchase yet at $150. Needless to say that our fridge and cupboards are very full. We take a taxi back to the condo and while unpacking we notice ... read more

There was a lot of talk about the end of the world and you might think we are crazy actually being in the place were that was all predicted, but the only notable event of nature on this day here is wind. Windier than we have seen so far. Ian had planned to go scuba diving in the morning, but it was so rough on the ocean that the harbour is closed except for large cruise ships. A sailboat breaks off it's mooring across the street and lands on the rocks along the beach. This reminds Ian of his work, since he is often called out on similar jobs like this back at home, just before we left, he and John had conducted a very similar rescue on the East shores of Kootenay Lake for a ... read more

The island of Cozumel is not really that big, about 48 km (30 miles) long and 16 km (10 miles) wide. It's Mexico's largest carribean island. Most of the population is in San Miguel as I've previously mentioned, then the rest appears to be spread out along the West Coast of the Island, the side closest to the Mainland. The main road runs right along the coast line, this is the road our condo is on and where we do most of our walking, it has a nice wide sidewalk. The interior of the Island is very dense jungle. Even here in our condo, the next lot over is empty and incredibly overgrown by jungle. It must have been quite a job at one point to carve through that for development. There are more scooters and ... read more

We decided to check out some new beaches since we still have our rental car, we had already drove into Alberto's beach club, taken a look and turned around and left. It was really small and secluded and really didn't look very clean. A sign that said 'wear bare feet at your own risk' gave me a bad feeling. So we drove to the very end of the beach district to the furthest beach club called Playa Palancar. It was a long gravel road driveway to get in, but then we ended up at a really nice little beach area, almost as nice as Punta Sur. Unlike Paradise Beach, where we have frequented, there is no pool or manicured lawn but we both really liked it. It was clean and a little more authentic Mexican. A ... read more

The nice weather is back, yay!! We go for our longest walk so far. We walked from our condo along the ocean downtown as far as the shopping district goes. Then we start back along the back streets. On the airplane on the way here, the guy sitting next to me said he had been to Cozumel about 20 times, he mentioned his favorite restaurant here was La Lobsteria. Ian and I had seen this restaurant on our walk before, a little off the beaten path, nothing too fancy, so we decided to stop in for lunch. Ian had lobster tacos and I had lobster pasta. Our waiter didn't speak much English. I was expecting pasta with some kind of sauce (hopefully not too spicy) and some pieces of lobster but I got a whole lobster ... read more