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with your host 'Sharky'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-71315221120578570282018-02-02T14:00:00.001-08:002018-02-02T14:00:17.823-08:00Sharky's Big Cozumel Adventure 2018! <div align="center">
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May 10-28 - Blue Angel Resort and Dive Op</h3>
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Videos from the 2017 Big Adventure ...</h4>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-85375291146571876602016-10-19T10:13:00.001-07:002016-10-19T10:13:37.858-07:00Chankanaab Shallows, Cozumel, Mexico - May2016<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S88aDng0Iys" width="480"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-1120811888592910862016-10-18T14:19:00.001-07:002016-10-18T14:19:54.529-07:00Columbia Shallallows, Cozumel, Mexico - May2016<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z40rTvroB5U" width="480"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-51326906292312745762016-10-18T12:28:00.001-07:002016-10-18T12:28:40.304-07:00San Clemente Reef, Cozumel, Mexico - May1016<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ap0FfoG25x4" width="480"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-90226424847170779542016-10-17T20:23:00.001-07:002016-10-17T20:23:41.231-07:00Palancar Bricks Reef, Cozumel, Mexico May2016<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-R4eA1GjpGk" width="480"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-69450771682534867322016-10-17T14:58:00.001-07:002016-10-17T14:58:46.973-07:00Cedral Pass Day2 May2016<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3WVuwKd0nkA" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-8934882944589216442016-10-17T13:58:00.001-07:002016-10-17T13:58:00.885-07:00Francesa on to Cedral Reef May1016<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A9IG3dPd3cM" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-66102490520075323982016-02-22T12:48:00.001-08:002016-10-17T12:53:52.326-07:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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I had fallen and at the very lest cracked a rib just 2 weeks before this trip, and was debating as late as the night before the trip as to whether I could make it or not. <br />
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The morning of the trip, I felt pretty good and only had some minor issues with it throughout the trip. By the end of most days, I was feeling it, but other than the occasional tweeking it while holding on to the line along the side of dive boat or climbing up the ladder into the boat, it was not a major issue at all.<br />
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AA Flight 1256, the daily flight from D/FW to Cozumel left on time and with fairly smooth flight, we arrived almost 20 minutes early at Cozumel International.<br />
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We made it through customs in nearly record time, got the green light at the baggage check, purchased transfers at the taxi window and we we're whisked off to the Blue Angel Resort (Casa Sharky)<br />
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I've made a survey of the cruise ships in town on a daily basis for many years. Today, there were 3 ships at the International and Mayan piers and a Disney ship at the downtown pier.</div>
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Ester dropped off the car from Less Pay at 4:30 and we headed up to Mega for some supplies.</div>
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Both of us were up very late the night before, so we had dinner at the Blue Angel restaurant. We split an excellent spinach salad, Shrimp Alfredo for her, perfectly cooked pasta in a very good Alfredo sauce. I had the chicken fajitas which were also very good. <br />
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Mexican Labor Day, banks and some businesses closed.<br />
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We slepted in a little. Checked in with the dive shop & sent my rig over to Javier at Cozumel Scuba Repair to get serviced.<br />
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I have had my rig serviced twice over the past 2 years by dive shops back home who farm out the work to an individual. 2 different dive shops use the same guy, and I have suspected he did not do the work either time.<br />
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Coz Scuba Repair, picked up the rig at the Blue Angel, did the maintenance on the regulator, replaced the broken pressure gauge and returned it back to Blue Angel by Tuesday, even with the holiday and weekend. AND it only cost $160, including labor, parts & the gauge, $60 of was the gauge! ... pretty sure we're just going to use them from now on.</div>
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Then we headed up to the <strong>Museo de la Isla de Cozumel</strong> for a late breakfast.<br />
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We love this place and have been coming here for almost as long as we have been coming to the island. <br />
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Mexican eggs for me, what we call Migas at home. Scrambled eggs with onion, peppers, tomato, & the Iron Man for her, scrambled egg whites spinach with panchego cheese. Coffee & mixed juice (orange & carrot) to drink.<br />
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After eating, we stopped and bought a table cloth from the guy who sells his family's products just outside the Museum. He has been there for years. The table cloth is weaved "lace" with a Maya motif on it.</div>
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Then we set out to circumnavigate the island for the first time of this trip.<br />
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Heading south, we jumped off the main highway at the Caleta and took the beach road. Fiesta Americana has reopened as a new all-inclusive resort after a major renovation. It looks odd painted in turquoise and white, rather than the bright orange it had been for so many years.<br />
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Playa Corona is still hanging in there. It holds a special place in our hearts. It was the first "day beach" we spent the day at almost 20 years ago now.<br />
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We stayed on the old road all the way down to Punta Sur, stopping to pay homage to "Tree", the giant Ceiba tree just a mile or so north of Punta Sur & the Rasta Bar.</div>
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They have blocked the old road once you get past Rastas, so you have to stay on the highway now, which kind of stinks, we like to just cruise along the old road at 5-10 mph, just enjoying the view and counting turtle nest stakes.</div>
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Because of the "norte" and prevailing northerly winds, it was probably the calmest I've ever seen the wild side. The waves are usually constantly pounding the shore over there because the prevailing winds are usually coming off the Caribbean Sea from the east, making this a great place to spend the day on a hot, humid day. The Caribbean breeze is like natural air conditioning. </div>
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For dinner we headed up to see our pals Angie and Matt at<strong> 'Ohana Café & Bar</strong>.<br />
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It's not only one of our favorite places to eat and hit of a nightcap, but also two of our favorite people on the island, which extends to their family. Angie's father owns<strong> Rasta's/The Freedom Bar/Bob</strong> <strong>Marley's</strong>, whichever you prefer.<br />
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The Mrs. had the lobster rolls. PERFECTLY cooked lobster tails, stuffed with cheese & wrapped with bacon...what more could you ask for/</div>
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2 Carnivals at the I.P./Maya piers<br />
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We opted to dive the new 10 o'clock option this morning. Pretty good choice, it was just the 2 of us and a guy named Mike from San Francisco. My buddy Tony Vilet as DM on board the BAII.</div>
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The southward moving current took us over <strong>Yucab</strong>. The currents were a little crazy. In fact the weather has been a little crazy. Unseasonably hot the previous 2 weeks, a Norte just before we arrived & now, unseasonably cool weather the past couple days.<br />
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We saw 2 Bearded Splendid Toadfish, lots of snapper on this dive. Tony found some nudibrachs, Tons of lobster everywhere. Some grouper, and the usual suspects of damsels, blue chromis and wrasse all about.</div>
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I started to follow Tony into the ship, but couldn't 'feel' or hear my buddy behind me, so i exited and sure enough, Lore was having equipment issues. Her BC infiltrator wasn't connected & she was having weight belt issues.<br />
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After the guys came out of the ship, we all then moved off over the sand flats to Chancanaab Shallows. We didn't anything significant, except we found a cleaning station with at least 2 cleaning shrimp, an arrow crab & a banded coral shrimp all under a lip of a large barrel sponge.<br />
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2 Cleaner Shrimp at a Cleaning Station...</div>
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Then we walked u the street to<strong> La Hatch</strong>, just south of the hotel across from Villa Blanca, for a late lunch. Shrimp ceviche for her, and tacos El Pastor for me. I LOVE taco El Pastor and this place does them very well.<br />
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Some more chill time at the hotel, waiting for the big Mayweather/Pacquiao fight, we headed up to Mega and picked up a couple pieces of pizza for dinner.<br />
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<u>Day Four: Sunday, May 3:</u></h4>
1 ship downtown? ... unusual for Sunday. There are usually not ships on Sunday.<br />
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So the dive thing is having a hard time gaining traction. I didn't sleep at all Saturday night, usual insomnia, and wasn't feeling so great in the morning, so we canceled diving for the day.</div>
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I finally fell to sleep and slept most the morning while Lore got in some pool time.</div>
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We had lunch at Blue Angel, Lore had the shrimp crevice, saying she could eat this every day. I replied, I think you have.</div>
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Then we jumped in the jeep to drive around a bit, ended up going around the island again, this time the old road was open from Rasta's on, probably because it is Sunday so the locals could use it to get to the beach, and usually there are no cruise ships on Sunday, except today one was at the downtown pier, so there is less traffic around the island in general.<br />
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We counted about 10 marked turtle nests, a good start for only the 3rd official day of turtle egg laying season.<br />
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Then we headed down to the 100 year old town of Cedral for the Fiera de Cedral. An annual event held this time of year.<br />
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our friend Angie's grandfather's boat ... Cozumel history!</div>
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Our friends Matt (Mateo at BA) & his wife Angie, the owner of 'Ohana Bar, were staying at a friends house and invited us by. A lovely little house with a pool and fenced/walled yard. I would love to live in this town if we ever moved to the island.<br />
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After the traffic slow down, we arrived and met our friends. After a little while we walking up town to see the festivities. Angie and Matt's daughter was the juvenile queen of the Carnival and she was dressed in a traditional white embroidered dress with her crown.<br />
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An amazing amount of people show up for this thing! The bull fight was just getting over when we got downtown, but the dancing was in full swing.<br />
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Getting out of Cedral was much faster and we stopped at Mega for some supplies before heading home.<br />
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<u>Day Five: Monday, May 4:</u></h4>
2 ships at the I.P./Maya piers.<br />
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The Mega pizza didn't sit very well, so I wasn't up for the morning dive. Slept in a little and hung out at the pool most of the day.<br />
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With a quick lunch break at <strong>Rock'n Java</strong>. I had one of the dishes I get there a lot, grilled chicken on rice with mango/kiwi salsa, served with soy sauce...yummy.<br />
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Lore had an excellent spinach and mushroom quesodilla. just right.<br />
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R'n J grilled 'Teriyaki' chicken with rice and mango/kiwi salsa</div>
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Then it was time for one of the highlights of all my trips to the island... massage time with <strong>Barefoot </strong>Sally!<br />
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If you have never experienced an Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage, do yourself a favor and schedule one at <a href="http://www.barefootincozumel.com/">http://www.barefootincozumel.com/</a> for your next trip.<br />
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It rained to the south of the island most of the afternoon, but stayed nice an dry near town and at the hotel.<br />
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Rule #1 of island life, if it's raining where you are at, move to the other side or end of the island. Most likely it's not raining there.<br />
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Driving along the Milgar ...</div>
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Sunset at the marina up North ...</div>
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Dinner at a Cozumel classic, <strong>Casa Denis</strong>.<br />
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Casa Denis is one of the oldest restaurants on the island and a 'must do' for most that are regulars here.<br />
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Garlic octopus for her chicken mole enchiladas for me, mango margaritas all around.<br />
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<u>Day 6: Tuesday, Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) -</u></h4>
2 ships at I.P./Maya piers<br />
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Morning dive with DM Pedro & Chango (Alberto) on the trusty Chiquimax.</div>
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First stop <b>Palancar Gardens.</b><br />
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With the Norte out of the way, the winds and currents have returned to normal, speed, although we were still headed to the south. A nice easy drift along the beautiful, coral and sponge covered 'island side' of the reef wall.<br />
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Several very large lobsters, A big King Crab, TONS of Midnight Parrot fish, and Gray & French Angels, with the occasional Queen popping out of an overhang.<br />
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King Crab ...</div>
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An S.I. on the boat & we were off to <b>Tunich</b> for the second dive.</div>
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Remember how i said currents were back to "normal" ... may have spoken a bit too soon.</div>
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The current on Tunich was headed the right direction, but holy mole! What a ride! Absolutely screaming current headed north.</div>
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Lore head off as Gray Angel passes by ...</div>
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Pair of Gray Angelfish</div>
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Yellow Spotted stingray</div>
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Despite that, the group counted at least 5 nurse sharks, Several Hawksbill turtles, a green & a huge Loggerhead.</div>
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<u>Day 7: Wednesday, May 6:</u></h4>
2 ships at I.P./Maya, one arrived at noonish.<br />
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A good diner was in order, so on the suggestion of Inked pasta and a seafood mix, we headed up to <strong>Guido's.</strong></div>
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Guido's garlic bread, and a wonderful salad for appetizers.</div>
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Lore opted for the Inked pasta, with octopus, shrimp & scallops on our friend Keri's suggestion.</div>
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I had the pork special. Tender pork tenderloin with a cherry reduction and brie cheese sauce, served with roasted cauliflower, grilled zucchini & mashed potatoes.<br />
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Red wine for drink, Italian coffee & coconut creme brule for dessert.</div>
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<u>Day 8: Thursday, May 7:</u></h4>
2 ships at I.P./Maya<br />
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Back on the boat! Morning dive on Chiquimax with Chango & DM J.P. (Juan Pablo).</div>
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<b>Santa Rosa </b>for number one.<br />
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This reef has been the slowest to recover after hurricane Wilma, 10 years ago. The reef looks better than it has in a very long time. Covered with coral and sponges, Blue Chromis, Damsels, parrots, large snapper (the Mutton Snapper have gotten very large), more lobster and another large King Crab.<br />
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The amazing <b>Cedral Pass</b> for the second dive. This site should be called Turtle Town for a nickname and has become one of my favorite dive sites on the island.<br />
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We stopped counting Hawksbills at 10, others saw a green, up to 5 nurse sharks and an Eagle Ray cruised by, well, actually one of the other divers chased it right into my path and I manged to get a couple very nice shots of it.<br />
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The theme for this trip is "chill", which we did most of the afternoon. A lot of that on this trip.<br />
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I was able to get Mark and Janelle Weisheart from Phoenix Arizona to sit down with me and do a Dive Report for Cozumel Radio. They did an excellent job and it is currently being aired on the station. </div>
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For dinner, we headed up to another favorite spot, the <strong>Rock'n Java Noodle Bar</strong>.<br />
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We ordered beef egg rolls and split a large Cashew Chicken noodle bowl. The egg rolls may have been the best I've ever had, and I've had a lot of them. We got the order of 2, which are very large for egg rolls, stuffed with chopped carrot, jicama and ground beef. Not the cabbage stuffed wantons you get back in the States.</div>
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We've had the Cashew Chicken noodle bowl before, and as all the R'n J products, it did not disappoint.</div>
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<strong><u>Day9: Friday - May 8:</u></strong><br />
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2 cruise ships @ I.P./Maya<br />
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The FINA High Dive World Cup starts today. They have set a large scaffolding structure on the new car ferry pier, just north of Blue Angel. Women will be competing from 20 meters and men from 27 meters through Sunday.<br />
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Morning dive with Chango and DM J.P. on Chiquimax ...<br />
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How 'bout some bricks? <b>Palancar Bricks</b> that is.</div>
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Most of the bricks have been spread out as far south as Columbia Shallows and north through the rest of the Palancar dive sites, Gardens, Caves and Horseshoe. </div>
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Bricks never disappoints, it has everything a diver needs on a Cozumel deep dive. Large pinnacles, swim-thrus, ins & outs, all supported by a beautiful coral wall.<br />
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Nudibranch in algae ...</div>
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For the second dive JP read my mind and we headed to <strong>Dalila.</strong><br />
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my dive buddy!</div>
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Several large barracuda, a small Hawksbill jetted down from the surface after taking a breath, lobster everywhere and tons and tons of fish everywhere.</div>
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My motivation was to get to dive with the local nurse shark some have dubbed "Nurse Jackie" who has obviously been had fed lionfish and is now showing up during people's dives and becoming quite friendly. I just hope she doesn't start becoming aggressive once she realizes that she's not being fed anymore.<br />
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It is legal to hunt lionfish in the Marine Park, but it is illegal to cut the fish up and hand feed it to other animals. You are supposed to just spear the lionfish and take it off the spear and leave it to the predators to just find them and eat them on their own.<br />
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No Nurse Jackie today, but Hawksbill turtles, lots of lobsters, Tons of schooling fish and several big barracuda met us along the way.<br />
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A light lunch at <strong>La Hatch</strong> ... love me some La Hatch. Shrimp cocktail for her and of course, Tacos el Pastor for me. Mango margarita and Pineapple/banana margaritas respectively, which we shared back and forth.<br />
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A little drive around and some chill time and it was time to get ready for one of the best dinner experiences the island has to offer ...<br />
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<strong>Buccano's</strong> is truly special. Located in the northern hotel zone, this former hotel property is now one of Cozumel's best and most beautiful day beaches, and on Friday and Saturday night, becomes the amazing <strong>Buccano's at Night.</strong><br />
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My buddy Inez Falkenberg, owner of Buccanos, and her wonderful chefs and staff do an exceptional job from the greeting at the door to the last bite of dessert.<br />
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Our friends and dive buddies from Breckenridge, Colorado, Chris and Keri joined us for the event.<br />
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The girls started with a Jalapeno/mint margarita, special app drink. Quite spicy, but very good. Chris and I opted for the nightly red wine special, a blend from Spain that was very good.<br />
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Lore and I started with Butter Poached Cheese Raviolis - poblano rajas, fresh corn & toasted almonds with brown butter.<br />
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Or friends had a melted cheese with lobster app.<br />
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For dinner, both Chris and I had the Queen Snapper special. Snapper crusted with coconut, served over a bed of green beans and roasted onions ... excellent.<br />
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Lore had the Blue Cheese, Lobster macaroni and cheese special, very good and very rich.<br />
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Keri had the Lobster Ravioli, a regular menu item. Big smiles all around.<br />
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For dessert we all split chocolate mocha cheesecake and a lemon parfait with brownie and blue berries ... again, smiles all around.<br />
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<strong><u>DAY 10: Saturday - May 9: Mexican Mother's Day!</u></strong><br />
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We took the day off from diving and slept in a little.<br />
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I made my way down to the lobby, took some pics of the property and was able to get my new friends Louissa from Germany and Amelia from Melbourne, Australia to do spots for the station for me.<br />
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The girls are part of a GOPRO dive program going on at Blue Angel. The company has nothing to do with the camera company and I suspect even was in existence before the camera company.<br />
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They offer SCUBA training for potential dive professionals from Open Water all the way through Instructor certifications. If you do the entire program, I believe it lasts six weeks.<br />
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Our friend, DM Matt (Mateo) had told us about the fairly new restaurant<strong> Guido's Delicatessen</strong>, located on the corner of 15th ave. N at Calle 10 (10th St.) The full name is <strong>La Tienda Guidos</strong> <strong>Delicatessen</strong><br />
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Wow, what an great reco!! Lore had the Ham, Cheese and Leek quiche, served with a sample of their excellent curry potato salad and BLT pasta salad, all very good.<br />
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I had the English Breakfast, a slight diversion of Eggs Benedict, 2 round focaccia bread slices, covered with scrambled eggs, ham and smothered with béchamel sauce ... excellent! Did I mention it was excellent?! We WILL be back here ...<br />
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Water, O.J. & a cappuccino for drinks ... we have found a new favorite for sure!<br />
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Another day relaxing around the pool. We had thought about trying to get a shore dive in, but a lot of relaxing seemed to be more in order on this trip.<br />
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For dinner we headed up to <strong>Rock'n Java</strong> for some of their excellent Potato skins for and appetizer, a Caesar chicken salad sandwich for me and a big bowl of black bean soup for her.<br />
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I purchased a metal sculpture of a shark for my shark collection. R'n J has several of them on their walls and Blue Angel has several displayed in the lobby as well. I have admired the work for years, and finally decided I needed a new shark for the collection.<br />
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<strong><u>Day 11: Sunday, May 10: Mother's Day U.S. -</u></strong><br />
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No ships on Sunday ... like it should be.<br />
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Back on Blue Angel II, this morning with Fiero at the helm and our buddy Pedro doing DM duties.<br />
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First stop, the beautiful <strong>Palancar Caves.</strong><br />
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<strong> </strong>The name of the site "caves" is a bit of a misnomer, there are a couple swim-thru's here, but what mostly makes up the topography, are tall pinnacles stretching from the ocean floor to around 45' spaced out all along the wall, so there are lots of in's and out's to explore.<br />
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We were visited by what I'm pretty sure was our local Loggerhead sea turtle, some have named Eduardo.<br />
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It came over a pinnacle and gently swam among and around the group of us for a couple minutes before moving on south down the reef.<br />
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On ascension from the dive I experienced some reverse blockage and was pretty off balanced when I got on the boat.<br />
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We had planned on doing <strong>Villablanca Wall</strong> for the second dive, so I had Fiero drop me off at the hotel pier, before taking the rest of the group out to one of our favorite dive sites.<br />
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I slept off the "vertigo" ... mostly, and we headed up the street to the car ferry pier to see the men's finals of the high dive competition.<br />
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We found a spot in the shade that was just perfect for viewing the diving ...<br />
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We first tried <strong>Kondesa</strong>, but we did not have a reservation and they were full for Mother's Day, so we headed up to<strong> La Terazza</strong> in stead.<br />
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We split the nearly famous Blue Cheese salad. A carry over from the old Prima menu and still a favorite.<br />
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Lore had the grouper with pasta and veggies, she said was so-so. She had definitely had better here.<br />
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I had had chicken ravioli here for a special a couple years ago and it was exceptional, so I ordered the spinach and ricotta ravioli off the menu, again, it was good, but not great.<br />
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<strong><u>Day 12: Monday, May 11:</u></strong><br />
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One last day to get a dive in. Morning dive with Chango and quite possibly the best DM on the island, our buddy Jose on Chiquimax.<br />
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I still wasn't feeling 100%, and in retrospect, should probably have not even tried to dive today, but, decided to give it a shot.<br />
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First stop, one of the best deep dives on Cozumel, <strong>Columbia Deep.</strong> Again, a gorgeous wall dive with tall pinnacles, and lots of in's and out's to explore.<br />
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Jose, Chris and Kerry dropped to at least 100', I stopped at 86' and moved back up to around 70 and hovered over the group, exploring the wall and pinnacles, looking for something I hadn't seen yet on the trip.<br />
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My ears weren't quite cooperating, even though it appeared that I was clearing, I still had much more pressure in my head than what was comfortable.<br />
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I signaled to Lore to buddy up with Jose, signaled him I was surfacing and headed up to do a quick SI.<br />
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Chango picked me up and by that time, I was feeling pretty off balanced again. Upon our return home, I have seen an ear, nose and throat doctor and my left ear drum is recessed and not releasing properly ... thus the reverse blockage coming up. ... we're trying to get it fixed now.<br />
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Shortly after I got on the boat I heard my wife's voice. She was having BC issues, the inflator on the rental BC she was using was sticking and blowing up her vest too fast for her to deflate it and after messing with it, she didn't feel up to inflating manually and just aborted the dive.<br />
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So, for the second day, I missed one of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite dive on Cozumel.<br />
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<strong>Columbia Shallows </strong>is an amazing 30' max dive. Tons of coral and sponge examples, including Elkhorn and Pinnacle corals, fish everywhere, it's a good place to see a nurse shark out swimming, and overall, is pretty much like diving in an aquarium.<br />
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I was feeling pretty bad by the time we got back to the hotel, and slept most of the afternoon again.<br />
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Lore had lunch with our dive buddies Sylvia, Chris and Keri and chilled at the pool with a book most of the afternoon.<br />
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I still wasn't feeling great by dinner time, but needed to eat, so we jumped in the jeep and made our way to <strong>Ernesto's Fajita Factory</strong> for dinner.<br />
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This is a long-time Cozumel favorite of many people. The setting right on the water is great for sunsets or a leisurely lunch, I think they are even open for breakfast.<br />
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Lore had the nearly world famous Cozumel Burrito. A large tortilla stuffed with a seafood variety that never disappoints,<br />
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I had the Mexican food combo plate called the Cozumelino. Quesadilla, taco, cheese enchilada, rice & black bean frijoles. One of the few places that still give you black beans on the island.<br />
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We used to get them almost everywhere, but most of the island has gotten "Americanized" and has moved to pinto refried beans.<br />
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I had water, but Lore had a Coconut daiquiri she just raved about.<br />
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<strong>Day 13: Tuesday, May 12:</strong><br />
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They make us go home.<br />
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Luckily for us, our plane didn't leave until almost 4pm, so I had plenty of time to slowly pack, rest, pack, rest, pack, rest ... as I could hardly hold my head up from my ear issue.<br />
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By 1:30 I was feeling somewhat alive and we headed to the airport to check our bags. We had upgraded to business class for the ride home, so check-in was quick and we headed back to "The Deli" for one last Cozumel meal.<br />
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I had the fresh roasted turkey sandwich and the Mrs. opted for fish sandwich. Both were very good, we will be back here again.<br />
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Business class worked out great! We were in the front seats of the plane and were the first to depart. <br />
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Smooth flight to D/FW, we actually arrived just a little early, made it through customs in record time, picked up the luggage and were home in no time.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I know, I know, a lot of folks out there have been put out by the fact that the
band ‘hacked’ their music when iTunes added the new U2 album "Songs of Innocence" to their phones for free …. For Free!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heck, even if you
aren’t a big U2 fan, for free it’s worth a listen… For Free!</span><br />
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it, it can be easily taken off ... did I mention it's Free!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not really on
your phone or even in your iTunes library until you download it from the cloud anyway. It’s just in your ‘purchased’
iTunes folder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ok, so I’ve been
giving the new U2 album a good read. I’ve actually listened to it straight
through more than once. I don’t think I’ve still EVER made it all the way through
1991’s ‘Achtung Baby’ on one pass, so that's a good sign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Achtung Baby</span> was the album
that signified the start of the band’s “new sound”. They didn’t want to “sound
like an American rock band” anymore and began experimenting with the mix of Euro-trash
dance beats and Phil Spectorish walls of sound. Can you believe it was 23 years ago?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> With this new LP, Songs of Innocence, U2 continues down this
path, but with a much more refined mix of the above sound and an ever expanding
understanding of ‘pop’ music. Maybe they’ve been hanging out with Sir Paul
McCartney, by far, the best ‘pop’ song writer around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 11 song album kicks off
with ‘The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)’, probably the first single to be released. It,
along with cuts 2, Every ‘Breaking Wave’ & possibly 3, ‘California (There
is no end to Love)’, will most likely make it onto the New Cozumel Radio playlist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This collection doesn’t
seem to be as “in your face” as earlier offerings, the “Euro dance beat” has
been toned down and paired with really good rhythms and melodies that are
threaded throughout the album. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bono still cranks out falsetto like a man half his age,
singing multiple parts on various songs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edge continues to
push the guitar into some sort of space age instrument venue, but also offers some nice
acoustic licks, cool Gilmoreish tones, a little metal... and even a tiny bit
of actual lead solo! I know, right! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
of course his background vocals are clear and melodic as always… we’re still waiting for
the Edge solo LP!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Larry Mullen over the years has found he doesn’t have to
work so hard, to bring the band together and lays down a really nice backbeat
throughout.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Adam Clayton. Well Adam is perfect. As usual, the real heart
of this band, the only member who had ANY formal musical training at the
beginning of U2, still is just, spot on. So good that you don’t always notice
him, but if he wasn’t there, you definitely would notice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are elements of Pink Floyd & the Black Keys (but I
already said Floyd, right), and even some Pet Sounds experimentation going on, including a little Beach Boys tribute at the beginning of ‘California’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still haven’t
ventured too deep into the lyrics, but there does appear to be actual songs and
lyrical content, rather than just a bunch of phrases and metaphors strong
together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, early assessment is
that we give U2’s Songs of Innocence a big “fins up” and recommend all you
Tankers to give it a try … like I said … it’s free!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hola! To get Cozumel Radio back off the ground, we need money!</div>
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So we are currently selling ad space for this blog AND the New Cozumel Radio website.</div>
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Well it's finally here! The Big Adventure 2014!</div>
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<strong>May 1 - Day 1 - Thursday</strong></div>
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<strong>"a pirate flag and an island girl..." k.chesney</strong></div>
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Made it through customs un molested, bought 2 transfers on the shuttle, and made our way to <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Angel Resort</strong>.</div>
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First order of business...hang the pirate flag and christen Blue Angel as "Casa Sharky" for the next 17days.</div>
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Ester and Victor from Less-Pay dropped off our Tracker, the little jeeps work perfectly for us.</div>
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They ain't the prettiest girls at the ball, but they run. This year's offering had bad tires, no windows, no dash lights, no turn signals, none of the gauges worked except the gas gauge, and the seat belts had no connection buckle...other than that, it was perfect.</div>
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An artist was working on these murals at the stair landings at Blue Angel while we were there...</div>
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We had to run downtown and pick up a couple things, so I stopped by<strong> Woody's</strong> to see if Annie, my partner in crime at the radio station was anywhere around. She was and we just said howdy pretty much and I promised to come by later to talk about the station.</div>
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It's slow season between Spring Break and the beginning of the Summer rush, so a lot of business owners take advantage and use the slow time to take a little vacation for themselves. Several of the people I wanted to meet last year and some folks I wanted to see this year are off the island right now.</div>
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By the way, the little souvenir shop next to Woody's is closing and has some very unique items at very good prices. I picked up some tank tops in there for just $8 each. Mrs. Sharky picked up a couple margarita glasses and a 'cowboy' hat for some friends.</div>
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Kudos to the <strong>Trashy Little Group</strong> for their beach cleanup efforts! The Wild Side beaches look very clean.</div>
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We cruised slowly along the old beach road. Ester said you can still drive on it going counter clockwise around the island, but the clockwise direction is for bikes and 2 wheel vehicles only.</div>
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After hanging out in the lobby with the Gunns, our Cozumel family from Austin, most of the late morning we headed up to the <strong>Museum</strong> for a very late brunch/ lunch. Chicken Tacos for me and Shrimp quesadillas for the Mrs.</div>
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<strong>Day 3 - May 3 - Saturday</strong></div>
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First stop, <strong>Palancar Horseshoe </strong>an excellent place to start. A beautiful wall dive with some large swim-thrus and caverns to explore. Not a lot of big fish on the reef this morning, we did see a large hawksbill turtle headed up for a breath and a 3 foot barracuda came in close to JP and I.</div>
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Dalila is beautiful garden dive. Besides the large barracuda, Lore found a Juvenile Drum, and a huge lobster in one of the swim-thrus.</div>
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After that we headed over to the<strong> Andale Bar</strong> at <strong>Saint Martin</strong> beach on the Wild Side to see our friends the owner, Chris and Sharon, but it was there day off, so we sat and talked with bartender Danny and another couple at the bar and had a couple tequilas.</div>
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Dinner at <strong>Blue Angel Restaurant</strong>, 2 fish of the days and a spinach salad, very tasty!! the fish was excellent, Mahi Mahi cooked traditional stlye, in garlic and butter...</div>
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<strong>Day 4 - May 4 - Sunday</strong></div>
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AM dive with DM Andre and Captain Eddie on the<strong> Blue Angel II</strong></div>
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Lore had lobster raviolis...perfect. I had blackened grouper with red marinara sauce on it. It was sort of like a blackened Veracruz fish...awe-some!</div>
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<strong>Day 5 - Cinco de Mayo! - Monday</strong></div>
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<strong>"Cinco de Mayo in Memphis, mariachis singing the blues..." j.buffett</strong></div>
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First stop<strong> Columbia Deep</strong>. A fantastic wall dive, the animal sightings are picking up. We saw 3 hawksbills and a free swimming nurse shark.</div>
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Second up, the natural progression. <strong>Columbia Shallows</strong>. A great dive! One of my favorites of all time.</div>
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He also took us to large pieces of Elkhorn coral, which I haven't seen since Wilma. Gordon took his mom snorkeling at <strong>Playa Corona</strong> and sad they found some Elkhorn out in front of there...love Playa Corona.</div>
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Lunch at <strong>Blue Angel</strong>, 2 chicken chimichangas.</div>
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Then it was off to see my buddy <strong>Barefoot Sally</strong> <a href="http://www.barefootincozumel.com/">http://www.barefootincozumel.com/</a> for an amazing massage. If you haven't had a massage by Sally when here, you simply must.</div>
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Dinner at an old favorite, <strong>Rock-n-Java</strong>. We split potato skins and the biggest club sandwich on Earth! Very tasty indeed!</div>
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<strong>Day 6 - May 6 - Tuesday</strong></div>
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5 ships in today! 4 in the IP/Mayan Pier area and one downtown.</div>
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am dive with my buddy Mateo and Capt. Jorge on <strong>Jibara</strong>.</div>
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Last day to dive with my buddy Gordon and his wife Carol. We head for <strong>Santa Rosa Wall</strong>.</div>
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Second up, the beautiful <strong>Villablanca Wall</strong>, just out in front of Blue Angel. A beautiful sloping wall covered with sponges, big barrel sponges and deep sea fans. I see different colored and variety of sponges here than anywhere else in the island.</div>
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I saw lots of coral banded shrimps, arrow crabs, but was unable to spot a seahorse. I found a nice big orange one here last year.</div>
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Lunch at <strong>Andale Bar</strong>. Lore had breaded shrimp which she just was going crazy for & I had wonderful fish and chips.</div>
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By the time we got back to the room it was 7pm and we laid down to rest before going to <strong> 'Ohana Bar</strong> for dinner...the next thing we knew it was morning! ....must have needed the rest.</div>
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<strong>Day 7 - May 7 - Wednesday</strong></div>
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A day off from diving, we saw our friends the Gunn family off and headed up to <strong>Jeannies Waffle</strong> <strong>House</strong> for a late breakfast.</div>
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We headed over to our friends Matt (Mateo) and Angie Moran's restaurant <strong>'Ohana Bar</strong>.</div>
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'Ohana Bar, 5th Ave. between 6th & 8th north, Tell them Sharky sent you!</div>
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This place has wonderful food! Including the best Chicago style pan pizza this side of Lake Shore Drive.</div>
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Mrs. Sharky had Lobster Rolls. 2 small lobster tails, stuffed with creamy cheese and wrapped with bacon...wrapped with bacon!! What could go wrong!? It was wonderful, "The most perfectly cooked lobster I've ever eaten" the Mrs. said.</div>
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After dinner we retired to the bar and talked with Matt and our newly arrived friends from California, Greg and Loree.</div>
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<strong>Day 8 - May 8 - Thursday</strong></div>
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Back on the boat! Morning dive with the for mentioned Matt and our buddy Alberto at the helm of <strong>Chiquimax</strong>.</div>
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I met fellow Scubaboarder and new Cozumel resident 'BettyfromToranto", she swims every morning with a group of women, including my pal Barefoot Sally, from Blue Angel down to Villa Blanca pier and back...I call them the mermaids.</div>
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First stop <strong>Palancar Bricks</strong>. One of my favorite deep dive sites. It is kind of an "all inclusive" deep dive site. It has pinnacles, canyons, swim thrus, and a beautiful reef to support it all.</div>
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Second stop, a new dive site for Sharky! <strong>San Clemente</strong>, just out from the old Sand Dollar pier, a gorgeous "aquarium" dive. Lots of fish of all kinds all over the place. It's also where all the eels, flamingo tongues and blennies have been hiding...I could do that kind of diving all day long!</div>
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We started off with some chips and guacamole and Lore had a shrimp ceviche and I had yummy El Pastor torta, chicken marinated in pineapple and some sort of sauce on a slightly crispy beget with fresh onion and cilantro for garnish...love el pastor!!!</div>
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Another beautiful day in Cozumel! Morning dive with JP & Alberto on <strong>Chiquimax.</strong></div>
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First stop the amazing <strong>Punta Sur Cathedrals</strong>. Several large swim-thrus on a group of large coral heads at the south end of the island.</div>
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Second stop <strong>part Francesa, part Cedral Pass</strong>...lots and lots of sea life! Like swimming in an aquarium! 2 Splendid Toadfish, a large Green Moray under a shelf, blue chromas EVERYWHERE, a small haswksbill and a small nurse shark with a young Nassau grouper in tow.</div>
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Tonight is our special anniversary dinner at Buccanos, so we headed up to <strong>Papa Hogs</strong> for a light lunch of guac and chips (of course) and one of PH's specialties, Southwest Quesadillas to split.</div>
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Spent a lazy afternoon hanging around the hotel, catching this blog up and such...off to see my buddy Inez at the fabulous <strong>Buccanos at Night</strong>!</div>
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I had one of my insomniac nights and didn't hardly sleep a wink, so we took the day off from diving. I slept most of the morning and Lore lounged by the pool until the dive boats came in and we got with our friends Greg and Loree and headed over to the <strong>Andale Bar</strong> for lunch.</div>
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Chips and guacamole, of course, Crispy Shrimp for her and Chicken tacos for me. We hung out there until 4ish and jumped back in the jeep and took Greg and Loree up to the northern hotel zone before going back to Blue Angel. They had never been up there so we gave them the grand tour, including a quick zip through the golf course.</div>
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On the way up, I experienced bad reverse blockage. My right ear just wouldn't release. The last 2 or three feet coming up from 45-43' were miserable. The "room started spinning" for a few seconds and finally a long squeak and I was out of it.</div>
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We started by splitting a blue cheese salad and Mrs. Sharky had the lobster fettuccini alfredo and I had chicken parmesan. Both of us ate until we were stuffed and then dove in to split a piece of the homemade strawberry ice cream pie with coconut crust.</div>
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First stop <strong>Punta Tunich</strong>. The current on Tunich was the strongest we have encountered yet, but still very manageable.</div>
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So we were just going to head up to Mega and grab a slice, and ran into our dive buddies Greg and Loree with were with Steve and Kami Michels, the owners of <strong>Liquid Blue</strong> dive op and they had just come from a place called <strong>Parilla Cozumel</strong>, and had tacos.</div>
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The owner Tim, seemed like a nice enough guy, but in retrospect, it seemed he unnecessarily put down his competitors and the local food, trying to talk up his 'American' fare. Apparently mistaking us for everyday tourists. Once he found out we've been coming here for nearly 20 years, he backed off a little...a little.</div>
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First stop, the amazing <strong>Palancar Gardens</strong>. Since this is my second to last day of diving, I opted for a more shallow dive, staying above 50' for most of the dive, skipping over the top of the reef and along its edges rather than doing all the swim-thrus.</div>
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Damsel fish, Blue Chromis, butterflies, small parrots, schools of midnight parrots, stoplight parrots, a large midnight goliath parrot, I found a juvenile drum... and then...a very large Loggerhead turtle passed thru the canyon between the reef proper and the pinnacles just before the wall drops off at about 60'.</div>
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We stopped at the old Sand Dollar pier for the SI, which they won't let you pee in the woods at anymore. A guy with a Dive Palancar shirt on told me if I used the forest as a bathroom again he would get the name of my DM and ban that boat from the pier...whatever. I started peeing off the end of the pier.</div>
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JP didn't disappoint either! He found a couple nudibrachs and once I realized how to find them, I found a couple myself.</div>
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Chillin' at the pool sounded good, so I ran up to<strong> Parilla Coz</strong>...hey, why not, and grabbed 2 cheeseburgers and fries. The special of the day was 2 burgers for 100 pesos, lunch with tip was $10, not that's cheap!</div>
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The hamburger was a little "mealy", ground a little too much, and the hamburger wasn't bad, but not as good as the one I had at 'Ohana during this trip. I generally try and stay away from beef on the island for the most part anyway. I has never been a culinary strong point on the island.</div>
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I've wanted to hear them for a long time and was happy to get the opportunity. They are quite good and played everything from Eagles to Coldplay and Green Day.</div>
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We talked about the radio station and she as officially handed the full reins over to me and I am now the sole owner of <strong>CozumelRadio.net</strong>!</div>
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The plan is to eventually get the online station back up and running again in some capacity, with the eventual goal of getting corporate sponsorship so we can go semi-commercial free and rather than having a weekly Shark Tank show, I'll just play the island stories, dive reports and audio segments from Sharky mixed in with the music.</div>
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I would like to publically thank Annie Cheatham for giving me the opportunity to do the radio show. I was a broadcast major in college, (the first time round), worked for the American Forces Radio Service part-time while in the Navy, was a nightclub mixer for many, many years, and have always wanted my own show...most of the time this is just too much fun! THANKX! </div>
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Back on <strong>Chiquimax </strong>with JP and Alberto.</div>
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First stop by request, <strong>Columbia Deep</strong>. Getting close to the last dives for us, so I decided to stay above 65' and mostly skimmed along the top of the reef with the Mrs. and couple others and the rest of the group did the many swim-thus.</div>
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Just as we dropped down, 2 large Nassau grouper were hanging in the water very close to us. I think we might have interrupted some mating ritual. One was diving deep and the other swimming shallow and the 2 would dive towards each other and pass touching. Some fish broadcast mate this way, I didn't see any egg release, but like I said, we may have disturbed the proceedings.</div>
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Beautiful dive, a couple hawksbills passed, more grouper, all the usual suspects, lobster, Blue chromis, butterflies, wrasse.</div>
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Surface interval at the little pier at Palancar and off to one of my favorite dive sites. <strong>Cedral Pass</strong>.</div>
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JP took and interesting route, we started off at the top of the wall and worked our way over to the Pass and its ridge/valley/ridge topography, and then over a sandy flat onto what he called Cedral Shallows, Which was large coral heads separated by small sandy patches, kind of "bolones" style reef.</div>
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The reef was just covered with fish, we saw at least 4 hawksbills and one small green sea urtle, a Splendid toadfish, lots of arrow crabs and few coral banded shrimp, a HUGE lobster moving from one coral head to another.</div>
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Willie's sister is the owner of 'Ohana, and her husband is Matt "Mateo" Moran, the DM extraordinaire at Blue Angel. ...and a big part of our extended Cozumel family.</div>
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Most of you know it as<strong> Coconuts</strong>, yes, it has become quite popular and on a busy cruise ship day feel touristy, but if you hit it in the afternoon after most of the cruisers have left and its a bunch of locals, ex-pats and long time visitors like us, it's still something quite special.</div>
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Today a very nice breeze was blowing through the giant palapa and it was the perfect day for Coconuts.</div>
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Coconuts lost one its little dogs, Luna to heart worms a few months ago. She was this delightful little terrier mix that everyone loved.</div>
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Well, Cuco, the owner has outdone himself replacing her. There is the adorable little puppy named <strong>Margarita</strong> up there now. She's still a puppy, but has the biggest paws on her you've ever seen. I've got a feeling, that next time I see here, I'll be facing a 45 pound Airedale mix!</div>
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House special, catch of the day Mahi Mahi with lobster, mushroom sauce, served with veggies and rice for Mrs. Sharky and spaghetti primavera for the shark. Perfectly cooked fresh pasta with veggies, and grilled chicken. They dress the pasta with garlic oil or butter and put the marinara sauce around the edge of the pasta mound.</div>
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Then off to <strong>Yucab</strong> for our second dive. Again vis down on this shallow dive, we spent most of the dive with our nose in the coral looking for small critters or out on the sand edges looking for the elusive seahorse...which we failed to find.</div>
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We did however find another juvenile lion fish, some Christmas tree and fan duster tubes. Lots of fish, tons of butterflies, blue chromis, and parrots of all sorts, including one bit Midnight parrot, some lobster under a shelf and a small barracuda cruised very close to me, giving me the eye all the way.</div>
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Lots of Mahi Mahi, or Dorado as they call it here, one massive one. Some Wahoo, a few barracuda, several black stripped tuna, which a local, with we think is a taxi driver we had one time told us the meat on the black stripped tuna is black as well. A couple grouper made the scale and one HUGE black marlin! A massive fish, I'll have to see if I can find the weights on the rodeo's website, surely they will post the finals there.</div>
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We met Wayne and Anna three years ago at Blue Angel and have kept in touch. We knew they were coming in today, but had no idea when or even that they were flying into Cancun. So it was quite a surprise to see them.</div>
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<strong>Day 18 - May 18 - Sunday</strong></div>
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<strong>"adios to all my friends..." zbb</strong></div>
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Well, all good things must come to an end, and such is the case with "The Big Adventure 2014"</div>
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This will be our longest stay on the island to date and it has been everything a vacation should be.</div>
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Overall the diving was great, we got to see a lot of old friends and meet some new ones along the way. </div>
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We had some awesome meals from a wide variety of places to eat.</div>
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It was a rainy morning as I got us all packed and we had about an hour to spare before heading to the airport to check our luggage, so we headed up to <strong>Villa Aldora</strong> to drop off a Shark Tank hat I had brought for Dave Dillahey's birthday.</div>
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The Villa manager, sorry I've gone brain dead and forgotten his name, but a really nice guy, gave us a tour of the place, very nice layout, with a salt water pool, rinsing station for shore dives, a nice little beach & palapa for relaxing and where they have occasional BBQ's for the guests.</div>
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We even made off with an Aldora hat and t-shirts! An unexpected treat indeed!</div>
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They have 9 villas, from 3 one bedroom rooms to 2 bedroom suites, that they can configure with different beds to accommodate just about any size group or family who should be coming down.</div>
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Customs has a new kiosk method of checking back into the country. It's a lot like your self check-in at the ticket gate and very fast compared to the usual standing in line routine.</div>
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Thanks so much to everyone at Blue Angel. From the dive crews to the maids we, appreciate everything you do.</div>
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Special thanks to my pal <span class="entity _586o" data-fulltext="Amethyst Amatista" data-group="all" data-icon="null" data-select="group" data-si="true" data-text="Amethyst Amatista" data-type="ent:user" data-uid="576998063">Amethyst Amatista a.k.a Barefoot Sally, <a href="http://www.barefootincozumel.com/">http://www.barefootincozumel.com/</a> for the wonderful massages and for being such a good friend.</span></div>
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<strong>Reef Report:</strong> The reefs themselves continue to improve and recover from the onslaught of Wilma.</div>
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Less hydroids dominating the landscape and more sponges and soft & hard corals taking their place.</div>
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The fish population seemed a little down on the deep dives. Not sure if it was due to odd weather patterns, there was a slight Norte just finishing up as we arrived and the other one at the end of the trip. Or if it is due to lionfish coming up from the depths at night eating the juveniles and small fish. </div>
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"Sunken Treasure" I found on one of the dives...</div>
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<strong>Equipment report:</strong> The only new piece of equipment this years was a new strobe. My Sea&Sea YS-25 finally gave up the ghost, so I purchased a new S&S YS-01 which did a fantastic job...photos to come.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-33053952188752228742014-04-21T07:52:00.003-07:002014-04-21T08:12:18.118-07:00Welcome Our New Sponsor! Da Slippa! Suppliers of Locals!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-37808383814877737792014-04-05T13:21:00.000-07:002014-04-05T13:21:34.093-07:00Sharky's Cozumel Dive Site Map!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358000871454168044.post-41988386988838703782014-03-24T18:06:00.002-07:002014-03-24T18:06:47.418-07:00The Play(along) List! How It All Began...... this week, we thought we'd take it back to where it all began.<br />
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"Irish Bands & Everything Green"<br />
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<span class="userContent">Well here it is...our first "Play(along) List"!</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"> You know, in our mind, this is still primarily a music based show.</span><br />
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