📍 Destination: Mexico 🇲🇽
🗓 Year: 2024
**🎒 Type of Trip: **Couple Road Trip
🤿 Diving Spots: Cancun / Isla Mujeres / Playa Del Carmen
⚓ Maximum Depth of Stay: 16m
📸 Photo: Aerial View
This article will be in 2 parts:
1st part about dives in Cancun & Isla Mujeres
2nd part about dives in Cenotes in Playa del Carmen
I dived with the “Scuba Cancun” club, the first historic club to open in Cancun.
The boat to access the dive sites is called “Scuba III”; I wonder what happened to the other “Scuba I & II” 😐
📸 Photo: Club & Boat
To access the dive sites, we take a 30-minute boat ride 🛥
Upon arrival, we gear up 🤿, and off we go, diving into the water…
📸 Photo: Boat Ride
As soon as we reach the bottom, we are immediately greeted by schools of fish, they’re everywhere 😍
📹 Video: School of Fish
Some fish were curious enough to approach and see who was visiting, like this porcupinefish 👀
📹 Video: Porcupinefish
For others, it was mealtime, like this pufferfish who was dining 🍽
📸 Photo: Pufferfish
pufferfish
In every dive, we remember about 10 things, but there are especially 1⁄2 main elements, which I call “the pièce de résistance” 😁
This time it was a beautiful Eagle Ray 🦈 that we saw twice, out in the open sea, and at the end during the safety stop.
**📹 Video: **Eagle Ray
In addition to the fish, the corals were magnificent. And upon closer inspection, we can see nudibranchs, like this Doris climbing on this elk horn coral 🪸
📸 Photo: Gorgonian and Doris on Elk Horn Coral
Some were ready to play and posed for the camera, like these surgeonfish 🐠 and damselfish.
While others tried a trick by leaving and changing color, like this cowfish
📸 Photo: Surgeonfish / Damselfish / Cowfish
Grouper and Turtle 🐢 were present 🔥
📹 Video: Grouper & Turtle
We end with a touch of beauty with this seashell 🐚 that could make a magnificent wallpaper 😉
That’s all for the morning dive. We’ll go back in the afternoon to visit the “Musa” underwater museum 👀
📸 Photo: Seashell
To start the Musa museum, we’re greeted by this bartender & his dog 🍹🐕
📸 Photo: Bartender & Dog Statue
His car 🚗 was parked nearby.
📸 Photo: Car Statue
Then, the museum begins, and it’s crowded, there’s a crowd of people 😲
📸 Photo: People Statues
In all this crowd, I kept looking 👀 for my lost private keys 🗝️ at the bottom of the ocean 🌊
📸 Photo: Scuba
I wasn’t the only one searching; others even plunged their heads deeper to search.
📸 Photo: Group Statue
That’s all for the bubbles in Cancun/Isla Mujeres 👋
It’s time to resurface for the next part of the thread, diving in the Cenotes in Playa del Carmen 👀
Stay Tuned ✌
**📸 Photo: **Bubbles & Fins
