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Boy am I glad we rented a car!  Driving with the Mexicans was quite an experience, especially the cab drivers. Definitely driving with intimidation and playing chicken ;D. we only got hit by one scooter.  I must have been diving at the time. ;D put a nice little scuff on the side of our rental car.  I know if I would have turned it in like that it probably would've cost us $1000. I cruised around town and found a local car detail shop. For a total of $15 to get the car detailed inside and out in the scuffed buffed out! :o and that was with a five dollar tip. We were on the north side of the island so was nice to pick up and go whenever, wherever we want.  Ended up putting on three to 500 miles on the car. If anybody's looking for a good price on fuel Mexico's only about three dollars a gallon. I thought it was going to be a lot more than that.

I didn't get quite as much diving as I would've liked to. Unfortunately my wife, got a case of Montezuma's revenge on the first day there . My instinct was to go explore some of the local tastes, kind of off the beaten path :.  While it is okay for me it didn't sit so well with my wife.  Course before she met me, she used to throw things so after the sell by date had been right reached, keep things refrigerated etc. etc. ???

I have never seen so many divers in one general area before.  It was like a parking lot. on one of our dives at Palacar caves, we drifted through three different sets of divers :o. The structure was surreal. We did most of our diving through bottom time divers, (Raul) and liquid blue divers.  If we ever go again, I will definitely schedule more things in advance. I now see purpose in split fins.  One guy in one of our groups was actually complaining to the dive master, that there wasn't enough current, and he had to use his fins! ???

With Raul we were pretty much able to dive our own program.  He had a Panga, and we were the only two divers on the boat.  I still like to take care of my own gear and switch my own tanks over.  They usually do one dive and then take a break and go to shore and get some lunch, before do in the second or third dive.  We talked them out of that and were usually back home before noon.  There are some nice reefs between 15 to 30 feet right out in front of our hotel.  We did a lot of snorkeling and free diving and were even able to spear some fish.  I have never seen water that blue before.  Amazingly beautiful structure, and fish.  There was one about 60 pound black grouper,  I must've stalked and shot about 50 times! Trudy found the biggest lobster, I have ever seen in my life :o.  The thing had to go over 20 pounds!  The width of the tail was eight to 10 inches! I got some real good footage, I will try to post later......

We were going to do the tuluum extreme tour, with . They told us to take the 7 a.m. ferry to Playa Del Carmen, and they would have a representative meet us there.  Nobody showed!  There was another couple there as well waiting to be picked up. We found the bus station and managed to make it there anyway.  We brought our mask ,fins, snorkels and did some good free diving on the reefs out in front. Really would've liked to of done that zip line tour though...... maybe next time.