Snorkeling

iidylii

iidylii

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just wondering if any of you might know if there is such a thing as a bad time to go snorkeling...my brothers and I are going to Cozumel Mexico middle of May and thought we better check on if there are good and bad times to go in the reefs?
 
lmforbis

lmforbis

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Nope. The Caribbean is pretty consistent year round. Never been to Cozumel. Spent a week diving Bonaire last July and will spend a week diving in Grand Cayman this July. Most of my diving has been the South Pacific. I lived in the Phillipines in the early eighties. As a kid we'd drive from Phoenix, where we lived, to the gulf of California to dive. It's more variable there.
 
jay0705

jay0705

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Black scuba suit off the coast of africa. I hear its amazing. Once in a life time experience
 
2quills

2quills

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My cousin and his wife went snorkeling down there on their honeymoon and said they really enjoyed it. Cozumel, that is (not seal island).
 
lmforbis

lmforbis

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Took me a while to get the joke.
My dad went great white diving in South Africa a few years ago (chummed water in a shark cage), he was around 70. Said it was a trip of a life time. This year when we go to grand Caymen he'll be 79. He complains that he has a hard time getting out of the water with his gear on now. I just hope I have half his energy when I'm 79.
 
jay0705

jay0705

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Wow. I turn 40 in july and i feel like iam getting old!!!. There is just something about the ocean and sharks. I was fishing in maine and blue sharks just come out of nowhere. Its spooky and cool all at the same time
 
lmforbis

lmforbis

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I've done a lot of diving and have never seen a shark. I haven't gone looking either. I told my brother, he's a dive instructor, that when we are in grand Cayman I want to see a shark.
 
2quills

2quills

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Waters here are full of sharks, no great whites though. Lots of tigers, bulls, hammers and black tips though. Can catch em right on the beach.
 
2quills

2quills

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Not as common here in corpus. I'm more concerned about the jelly fish. Not uncommon for a Port Man O War to wash up on the beach.
 
iidylii

iidylii

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I can live without seeing a shark in the water with me lol...

Anyways scratch the Mexico idea...do to time restraints we will just be going to st Petersburg Florida and staying in a hotel on the beach...I'm sure the snorkeling won't be near as nice but just hanging out with my brothers will be enough lol
 
jay0705

jay0705

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Alot of lion fish i guess down that way lol. Plus u can always pick up a hatchling gator
 
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