Puerto Morelos Beach
Jan 4-14 2017
“Jeanne, look down here!” Ray called out to me as we
started out from the shore with our snorkels and masks. A small ray, with faint
spots, was lying quietly in the sea grasses. One moment later we were floating
over the biggest Spotted Eagle Ray we have ever seen! And it isn’t running away!
It seems to be turning around, watching us! That skinny tail must be almost a
meter long. OK, as long as we do not provoke it, we can enjoy watching how it
moves like a delicate winged creature through the water.
We had arrived from Havana, Cuba the previous afternoon
and that was our first opportunity to go swimming. One of the reasons we like
Puerto Morelos so much, besides the long stretch of white sand beach, is the
ease at which we can enjoy the corals and tropical fish without having to go on
an organized snorkel boat trip. The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef is just 500 M
offshore, closer to the shore in Puerto Morelos than anywhere else along the
Yucatan. In 1998 the area made a protected Reefs National Park. You cannot fish
in the park and you are not permitted to swim out to the reef, but anyone who
can swim 100 M can go from shore to find corals and schools of fish to keep you
interested for hours. Yes there are barracudas hovering around the smaller fish,
but if you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you.
Puerto Morelos Beach and Leaning
Lighthouse
Our Puerto Morelos apartment
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the streets, exploring both north and south of town, in the morning and walk the
more than 2 km stretch of beach in the afternoon. I have also signed up for yoga
three mornings per week. The popular classes are led by Melissa on the roof
terrace of the small apartment complex, Abbey del Sol, a few blocks from our
apartment. Melissa teaches a form of Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga, which is different
from the Iyengar Yoga I have been learning in Ottawa, but I am adapting and
enjoying the classes.
On one of our beach walks, we were pleased and surprised
to be greeted by Carol and Lise, from St Jerome QC, whom we met 3 years ago at
La Petite Prince and saw again 2 years ago when Erica and family were here. In
the meantime, they bought a cottage near Mt Tremblant and didn’t come last year.
We renewed our friendship over drinks one evening and we will meet them for
dinner one evening, before they return to Canada next week.
Now if that El Norte wind will just drop down a bit more,
we will be back circling over all those multi-coloured fish again.
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