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!
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
Fabulous food should be part of everyone’s vacation. Good food cannot be confused with fantastic food. In Cozumel, the restaurant to go to is La Cocay. La Cocay means “dragonfly” in the Mayan language, but it’s food is distinctly Mediterranean. Here is some good news: they have enlarged their menu!
I confess that La Cocay is my favorite restaurant on the island. I love the location (3 or 4 blocks off the oceanfront, in a non-descript area) because you would never expect to find such a gem there. When my friends walked in, they said, wow, this is beautiful. I was kind of worried about this when you drove by here! No worries, Mexico has all kinds of hidden surprises!
There is inside seating, which is lovely, but my favorite place is the garden seating. In August it can be a little warm, but the evening we were there wasn’t bad at all. I loved hearing my friends and their “ooooo’s” and “ahhhh’s”. La Cocay has wonderful artistry in their presentation of every dish.
We gobbled the tapas before I could photograph them!
Next up were the Phyllo Rolls…..they melted in your mouth!
And my favorite salad in the world, La Cocay’s Napa Salad! Loaded with fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts,
it has to be tasted to be believed!
Leslie ordered Mahi-Mahi served with potato augratin….a culinary masterpiece, truly. I’m not a foodie, I have no idea how it was prepared, I only know it was an explosion of flavor! Kamailie and Lana enjoyed a Margharita Pizza from the wood oven. I had a bite of each….muy delicioso.
But I was waiting for the coup de gras! Chocolate Torte! I haven’t had any of their other desserts, though they look delicious. I HAVE to have my torte!
I have so many photos of our family and friends enjoying wonderful evenings at La Cocay. Once all of our kids were old enough to appreciate it, we’ve spent birthdays there (instead of at Carlos and Charlies). I hope our family will continue to enjoy La Cocay for many years to come!
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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.
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!
It is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, and unfortunately, the “fantastic” and “scary” (and sometimes untrue) takes precedence, so I thought I’d show you some of the sharks I have known and loved! I had an overly exciting minute with a Great White, but other than that, my experiences with sharks have been of awe, but not fear. They really are not the man eating, evil creatures depicted on most of shark week. I promise!
These are just a few of my photos, I’ve seen other species, but sometimes they just have not been close enough for a decent photo. I have never seen any of these sharks display aggression to humans, including the Great Whites. The cage incident was an accident, not an “attack”, check out my Close Encounter with a Great White. We NEED our sharks in our oceans. They are a necessary part of the food chain. It’s very important to protect them! Check out the Shark Alliance!
I had two fabulous dives yesterday….the first was on Palancar, the second was on Santa Rosa Shallows. Both were gorgeous dives! Enjoy!
Ah, I love being in Cozumel. I feel very at home here (except when all the cruise ships are in, then I stay underwater or away from town!). Next to diving, my favorite activity is snorkeling, so I headed out yesterday to check it out, and there wasn’t much happening. When I say that I mean there weren’t a lot of fish around. The current was quite strong, and the freshwater from the cenotes (underground rivers) were pouring into the ocean, creating cold water areas, and hot water areas. Not much to look at, really.
Today, I had a lovely massage and met with the managers of our property, then I decided to go out and play with my wide angle lens. I thought, not much going on out there, so I’ll just practice with the lens. Of course, whenever you aren’t fully prepared, you see awesome marine life.
There’s a small, open coral head that has been here forever, and I always look in it because I’ve found porcupinefish in there, and for a year and half, a small Hawksbill turtle made it his home until he grew too large. Well, it has a new resident: a 2 1/2 ft nurse shark baby! I couldn’t believe it! Exciting! I took photos, but of course, I had no strobe, no light, the wrong lens, so I just took a couple of photos (not that great) and let the baby sleep. So precious!
From there I saw a couple of yellow stingrays, always pretty, a lot of fish, a lot of tiny silversides, and an octopus! Again, I certainly didn’t have what I needed to photograph it, but I gave it the old college try. I also saw an anemone crab in an anemone, and a spotted moray eel. Mostly I just practiced with the lens, but it was a surprisingly great snorkel today! You just never know.
My mission this year is to find a seahorse while snorkeling out in front of our house. I didn’t spot any today, but next time I snorkel I’ll have the right lens and strobe!
Diving tomorrow! Can’t wait!
