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More of Cozumel Diving

January 18, 2015 By Tam Warner 1 Comment

Diving in Cozumel is always a great experience. It certainly helps to have a great dive master and dive company. There are so many in Cozumel I could never name even half of them. I do have favorites though.

I love diving with We-B-Divin-Cozumel. We started diving with them back in 2000, when Tony and Suzanne Castillo owned the boat. It is now owned by We-B-Divin’, but the dive masters have stayed with the boat. The boat is the Yucab III, and their service is top notch. Upon arrival, you are greeted with water, fruit, and pastries. The crew puts your dive gear together for you. After the first dive a delicious lunch is served. The boat is large, roomy and comfortable. When you are looking for more than a dive boat, call We-B-Divin’!

Another company I like is Albatros Charters. They have 3 boats, 2 smaller, fast boats, and a larger boat used for both diving and fishing charters. Their dive masters and crew members are solicitous and friendly. They also put your gear together for you, and serve muffins and fruit between dives. I have enjoyed diving with them during the last week.

As I said, there are many dive operations in Cozumel, but We-B-Divin’ Cozumel and Albatros are my favorites. Why not give them a try! Be sure and tell them that Tam sent you!

Fab Photos Friday: Amazing Cozumel Diving

January 15, 2015 By Tam Warner 14 Comments

Cozumel diving is always fabulous, but it has been exceptional this past week! Let me share the incredible experience with you!

Blue eyed beauty...Green Moray eel! — Blue eyed beauty…Green Moray eel!

Splendid Toadfish is only found in Cozumel waters.

Hanging out in my back yard, snorkeling.

Beautiful lobsters and corals and sponges

I had the most amazing encounter with an Eagle Ray! Usually they want nothing to do with divers, but since there were two of us only, she kept circling around and allowed me to get just a foot from her! Lucky I had a wide angle lens on my housing!

2015 cz col shallows eagle ray close up best — Gorgeous and friendly Eagle Ray!

Incredibly enough, this exciting encounter was followed by another close encounter…with a Southern Stingray!

2015 cz southern ray front closeup — Beautiful Southern Ray let me come up close and personal!

2015 cz south ray5 — This is how they find food, by stirring everything up

A deadly beauty...the Lionfish has no predators but humans in the Caribbean and Atlantic. — A deadly beauty…the Lionfish has no predators but humans in the Caribbean and Atlantic.

Dive or Snorkel? There is no place like Cozumel.

Fabulous Photos Friday under the Caribbean Sea!

August 22, 2014 By Tam Warner 21 Comments

My last visit to Cozumel was wonderful. I spent it with friends, did yoga, and went diving and snorkeling A LOT.

Enjoy looking at the fabulous creatures and scenery you can see under the waves in the beautiful

Mexican Caribbean!

Looking up from below is a beautiful sight.

A squirrel fish with a cleaner shrimp. — A squirrel fish with a couple of cleaner shrimp.

Looks like the surface of the moon, doesn't it? — Looks like the surface of the moon, doesn’t it?

Here is some scale: the pinnacles and mountains of coral on Palancar Reef are fantastic. — Here is some scale: the pinnacles and mountains of coral on Palancar Reef are fantastic, just unreal in their beauty and size!

Looks like a smile doesn't it? — Looks like a smile doesn’t it? Pretty funny looking Green Moray!

Gorgeous lobster. They are amazingly colorful. — Gorgeous lobster. They are amazingly colorful, and so alien!!

Teeny, tiny spotted cleaner shrimp. An inch?

A baby Trumpetfish hiding. I see you!111111 — A baby Trumpetfish hiding. I see you!

A very exciting find! A slender pygmy filefish! An inch or so, perfectly hidden.

This little territorial damsel bit me! Brave, it's only like 3 inches! — This little territorial damsel bit me! Brave, it’s only 3 inches!

I LOVE corkscrew anemones. Isn't it beautiful?? — I LOVE corkscrew anemones. Isn’t it beautiful??

You can see inside this file clam!11111111

para 14 queen angelfish and bubbles awesome — A Queen Angelfish playing with a diver’s bubbles!

This is a great find as well, an inch at most, he was digging away! Rough boxcrab.

I love turtles. — I love turtles, what can I say?

This is a whitespotted filefish....I think they are pretty cool fish! — This is a whitespotted filefish….I think they are pretty cool fish!

Soft corals...they almost look like weeping willows, don't they? — Soft corals…they almost look like weeping willows, don’t they?

This odd dude is only found in the waters of Cozumel: The Splendid Toadfish

Hope you enjoyed today’s show and tell! Some of these are not as appreciated as they should be. I love photographing the little stuff!

Have a great weekend!11

Coming Up for Air!

August 17, 2014 By Tam Warner 28 Comments

It has been a while since I have blogged! My last post was from beautiful Cozumel, and it was a great trip (for the most part). I was joined by two yoga buddies, and my roomie from my volunteer stint in Mozambique in 2012. How lovely it is to have a girl trip! We did a lot of yoga with Tammy Cervantes (THE yoga guru on the island) who came to our house to teach us a workshop, two classes, and meditation. She is also a wonderful masseuse! It would be quite difficult to find a better teacher…she is excellent. We snorkeled, Leslie and I went diving, we had wonderful meals (another blog on that one!), and talked, talked, talked. It was relaxing as well as fun. Well, until I came down with Dengue Fever!

Okay. I never had the blood test, so I don’t know for sure that I had it, but I don’t know what else it could have been. I had the symptoms, and I now fully understand why they call it “break bone fever”. Your bones and joints hurt like bloody hell! I had fevers over 102 degrees, and was sick, sick, sick. I really don’t know how I made it home last Friday I was in so much pain. The saddest thing about it: my daughter’s boyfriend (now fiance) proposed to her last Saturday and had a little surprise get together for her…I couldn’t be there. And yes, it just killed me. I tried, but I couldn’t stop shaking long enough to even put on make-up. To add insult to injury, my son and his fiance came into town for the event, and I could barely even visit with them. It was awful.

The Proposal, photographed by fabulous Peyronet Photography!

So, I missed my daughter’s proposal party, my son and future daughter-in-law’s visit, and it has only been in the last couple of days that I have truly come up for air. After the pain and fever goes, one is completely exhausted. Oh, by the way, you get Dengue from a mosquito, it cannot be transmitted any other way. It is miserable…wear bug spray!!!!!! The diving was absolutely fantastic on the trip, as these photos will prove! Now I’m getting ready to go to Florida…but that’s a long story, and I don’t know yet how it will turn out. Midlife, it turns out, is full of twists and turns!

A very friendly Hawksbill Turtle who swam right to me!!

Dive Photos from Cozumel!

August 2, 2014 By Tam Warner Leave a Comment

I had two fabulous dives yesterday….the first was on Palancar, the second was on Santa Rosa Shallows. Both were gorgeous dives! Enjoy!

Baby trumpetfish love to hide in these soft corals!

Looking up from 90 feet below on Palancar

Palancar Pinnacles are mountains of coral...this will give you scale! — Palancar Pinnacles are mountains of coral…this will give you scale! Isn’t it incredible??

A yellow ray hunts with a friend…look at those ice blue eyes!

This is an arrow crab...it fits in the palm of your hand — This is an arrow crab…it fits in the palm of your hand. See the blue claws?

The Moray was hunting! About 6 or 7 ft long! Gorgeous.

I love looking at lobsters close up, they are like aliens!

A spotted cleaner shrimp...so tiny! — A spotted cleaner shrimp…so tiny!

Beautiful Trumpetfish on Santa Rosa Shallows

Fabulous Photos Friday: In the Blue

July 18, 2014 By Tam Warner 22 Comments

To celebrate my husband’s rapid recovery from A DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT (see the category An Unexpected Journey, Lung Transplant here on my blog!), his clearance to travel internationally, and to scuba dive (snorkel first, of course), I have decided to feature photos from our home in Cozumel, of our beloved ocean, above and below, and some of our wonderful friends! PS Our home, Villa Coronado, is on Vacation Rentals by Owners at www.vrbo.com/368692. I call Villa Coronado my Blue House, not because it is blue (it is not), but because of our view of the bluest water anywhere!!!!!!

The roof hammocks, one of my favorite places to hang!

cor 14 sunset from water — An amazing sunset in the making, taken while I was out snorkeling.

Gorgeous Octopus on Paradise Reef at night

Randy and I swimming with whale sharks!111111111111111111111111111111 — Randy and I swimming with whale sharks!

See the whale shark just behind us? — See the whale shark to the right?

Just a little fun on the sand — Wes loves to run in the sand underwater!

Hey, Randy's at Coconuts again!111111111111111111111111111111111 — Hey, Randy’s at Coconuts again!

On the Felipe! — That’s me, in the Felipe!

Wes running...Alexandra falling backwards. I don't know. — Wes running…Alexandra falling backwards. I don’t know how….

coz 08 jun dolph dolphin — A close, personal friend!

A beautiful sunset — A beautiful Cozumel sunset

Come and visit Villa Coronado in Cozumel! Villa Coronado, is on Vacation Rentals by Owners at www.vrbo.com/368692. Bienvenidos!

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