We've made it to Xcalak, all is good. I don't have much to say about the trip down, except that he who is driving, not me, has to pay attention, every second because you don't know what you might run in to, and the lines on the road are vague.
We spent two days in Tulum, right in the town rather than on the beach, at a little inn surrounded by a neighborhood and the usual sounds that come with that. We drove to Coba and explored the ruins on old bikes with a few bent parts. Yesterday we spent the morning at the ruins in Tulum before heading south to Xcalak. Who could blame the Mayans for choosing such a gorgeous place to build their city? The ruins weren't as interesting as those at Coba, which are surrounded by vegetation, but the view and beach were amazing.
We arrived in Xcalak yesterday in time to run into the road crew on the beach road heading north to the house we rented. We were confronted with a stretch of road with at least a foot of new sand yet to be packed down and, unfortunately, a few nice sized rocks, one of which damaged something underneath our rental car. We then stood on the side of the road drinking cerveza with a couple of local guys while the big thing smoothed things out a bit. We should probable have the piece that came off the car reattached before we return it.
Our house is fine, we slept well and spent the morning on 2 leisurely dives out beyond the reef. The first was a mini-wall and the second a series of coral fingers. If we'd done the second dive first we could have explored some nice canyons, but as it was we'd been down long enough and couldn't spend any more time at that depth. May be worth a second dive. Lunch in town was
the way to end diving for the day. Now it's time for a siesta, Frank seems to have gotten a head start. Things move very slowly here.
I'm having a bit of trouble posting pics to this blog or face book and don't want to figure that our right now, so keep an eye on my Picasa pics, I'll post more later to there. See ya!
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