First Day Diving - Saturday

Our first dive this morning was pretty interesting. We dove the Palancar Reef, and we saw a Giant Green Morey Eel just a couple of minutes into the dive. We also saw several sea turtles.

Dad and I brought our tennis racquets again this year, because Cozumel has a pretty cool recreation complex just outside of town. Despite how poor most of the people are on the island, the complex is very nice. There are multiple basketball courts, volleyball courts, a big swimming pool, a track and a nice soccer field. There is also an outdoor boxing ring for sparring. It seems like all the locals converge here at the end of the workday to relax and have fun. Dad and I played for a little while on the tennis courts, and then we challenged two of the better players down there to play a little doubles. We played Luis (a taxi driver who is actually as good as most of the players that we run into in Atlanta) and his partner Sergio (who works on a submarine that gives tours to the cruise ship folks that come into town every week). Dad and I beat them 6-2. It was fun-- and they wanted to hit again later in the week.