Mexico Travelogue Day Two

On the second day, the first full day for us in Mexico, Maisie and I got up with the sun and to the exotic caws and calls of Yucatan grackles and maybe a Spider Monkey or two and headed to the beach.  It was still windy and the surf was big and present, but the air was warm and the sun golden.

  Maisie had found a drink glass on the beach and was entertaining herself with filling it with the white sand and then rinsing it in the Sapphire gin colored sea.

I turned and faced the resort and there were two VERY large birds soaring across the lightening sky- a pelican and a wood stork.  They were striking mostly due to the pterodactyl-like appearance in the cloudless sky.

After a wonderful al fresco breakfast buffet, we were in a taxi and off to Playacar, the town center to catch the ferry to Cozumel and to our planned excursion, the Atlantis Submarine and a look at the MesoAmerican reef and Yucatan Trench.

Some of the crew on Atlantis

On board the sub

Our little Ichtyologist

In town, we saw a lion cub, which was very exciting even while being sad, knowing this was not a natural life for such a majestic creature.

After the submersion on The Atlantis, we had lunch at a restaurant and had time to do a little shopping.

Waiting for the ferry to Cozumel

on the boat to the sub

inside the restaurant

After another lovely dining experience on the veranda, an hour of The Simpson's in Spanish and still feeling the time change and the effects of leaving home at 4 am we were in bed early, leaving the sliders open to the warm night air and jungle sounds.