| Five day cruise on the Carnival Ecstasy to celebrate my parent's 50th Anniversary  A two tank dive for our Cozumel shore excursion |
 We will taken to shore by boat today |
 Just off the boat and entering Cozumel |
 Enter from the top and exit from the bottom |
 Pass the photographers and onto dry land |
 Our scuba contact awaits in front of Ron Jon |
 Nice little Mayan Temple fountain in the middle |
 Fill out the paperwork with certification info |
 The excursion boats continue to depart the Ecstasy |
 The boats bring the tourists to their shore excursions |
 Another boat drops off another 300 passengers |
 Our scuba boat arrives to take us diving |
 Decent boat with shade, 2 ladders, & floor matting |
 The dive crew sets up our equipment |
 Donna hits the water at Santa Rosa Wall |
 Let the novice divers slam into each other ahead |
 Swam through 3 separate chutes through the coral |
 Donna maintains her distance from the novice divers |
 Plenty of nice, big Queen Angelfish on this dive |
 Not enough lobster for my brother's dining pleasure |
 Drop down deep and swim up the last chute |
 Donna comes out of the last chute on a nice dive |
 Back on the dive boat, Donna tells her Blue Hole bologna in the fin with Bull sharks story |
 The rest of the group relaxes, happy that they have a working depth gage, unlike David |
 Traveling back for the second shallow dive |
 All three cruise ships are nearby for dive two |
 Divemasters fins visible over 100 feet away |
 Caribbean spiny lobster tries to hide at Paradise Reef |
 First encounter with a Sargassum triggerfish |
 Black Durgon and a sea anomone |
 Sorry about eating your cousin on Tuesday night |
 And the camera starts to fog for the Bar Jack |
 Margates and Bluestriped Grunts |
 Plenty of big footlong filefish in Cozumel |
 Banded butterflyfish |
 Queen triggerfish - dang ole fogged camera! |
 The group encounted a giant cinderblock |
 Donna checks it out right before the safety stop |
 We return back to the dock after the dives are done |
 Still recovering from Wilma back on October 21, 2005 |
 Gather your gear and forget about a fresh water rinse |
 David lugs a heavy backpack full of wet gear |
 Check out the shops at the cruise ship dock |
 Most shops don't want dripping gear inside |
 Couldn't find a window display of cheap Guayaberas |
 Back to Ron Jon to head back to the Ecstasy |
 Need a Carnival ID & photo ID to clear the Federales |
 All the federales say, they could have had him on that day They only let him slip away, out of kindness, I suppose |
 Blue water at the cruise boat shore excursion dock |
 Back to the Ecstasy past the old busted dock |
 The Carnival Triumph is 30k tons larger than Ecstasy |
 She carries 700 more passengers and is 40ft longer |
 But I'd rather be in Ecstasy than to Triumph |
 Approaching the side of massive ship |
 The gangplank is ready to come aboard |
 The crowd debarks back to the Ecstasy |
 Earlier departure for a smaller crowd today |
 Back up top, watching the passengers return |
 Donna talks with Muskogee passengers on the delay |
 Norwegian Cruise Line ship also used shuttle boats |
 Two detained passengers force a late departure which is made with their remaining in Mexico |
 I betcha mexican prisons don't serve salmon and cream cheese bagels in lockup |