Thanks for the compliment on the photo, Daniel! Cozumel is like so many small tourist towns for me: Most of what gets thrust in front of tourists is the junk for sale by a lot of people trying to make a living. I ignore nearly all of that.
My little troupe of erstwhile friends and I got off the ship and took a short tour which included an hour at a tequila maker. Nice tasting there! Then they all headed to a beach club and evidently had a lovely time there. I was not interested in the beach ... This is a gay cruise, there's much more fun to be had... and a more entertaining view of the wildlife... on the ship's pool deck with the guys than at the beach for me. So I had the taxi driver take me back to the pier and spent the afternoon walking the ship and talking with people. I didn't go on a gay cruise for the local color. As I said to one of the beautiful young guys whom I had a margarita with, "We're here for us: We make our own entertainment, we are our own entertainment, as we travel through exotic places and enjoy being apart from our 'normal' world for a time. All of us together." ];-) I did have a great time alone with the taxi driver as he told me all about his life: He competes in triathlon events, he cycles. A youngish man of 44 years, his family came from the Island, his wife is from the mainland ... how they met, their kids. He asked about my life in the USA. For a twenty minute ride, it was a good long lifetime of sharing ideas and interests. That's the kind of cultural exchange I like. :-) G — No matter where you go, there you are. > On Feb 6, 2019, at 6:25 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Cozumel is famous for one thing, which it does extremely well: scuba > diving. Aside from that, it is a run-of-the-mil destination. > > Cozumel sits at the northern edge of the longest and best reef in the > Caribbean, and the facilities for diving there are far superior to anything > else in the Caribbean. I would never dive with any dive operator in > Jamaica, other parts of Mexico, or any of the other islands; the > equipment is rarely up-to-date and well maintained, and the emergency > services are non-existent. Cozumel, however, exists almost entirely on > income from scuba divers, and it takes the sport very seriously. My son > and I loved Cozumel for the diving; my wife is not a diver, so she was > bored -- except for the hair-raising plane trip to Chichen Itza. > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 8:35 AM Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> > wrote: > >> In port, Cozumel, Mexico ... >> >> https://flic.kr/p/QRD6iv >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
