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I was invited by Terese (seanile) and her local dive shop in Kenosha, to join them on a week long dive trip to Cozumel, Mexico.

All I can say is that we had a fabulous time, fantastic diving and so much fun. The diving was in general much harder than in STJ, with lots of currents, deeper and vertical walls. Of course also more shallow easier dives. We both had our scary moments, but came out fine, more experienced divers than before.

Here are a few photos from the trip (sorry, mostly uw pics)

Huge hogfish (4 ft)


Turtle:


Take my picture, I'm gorgeous:


Gray angel


Bermuda chub


Huge scrawled filefish


Splendid toadfish (endemic to Cozumel)


At a wall at 85 ft


Sargassum Triggerfish


Margate


Permit


Lobster


Porkfish


Tiny smooth trunkfish (2-3 inches)


Black grouper


Queen triggerfish


Terese and me at Maya ruins


Iguana


Sunset from the resort

Wow those pictures are awesome. Thanks for sharing them.

Great pictures Thanks

...these are simply incredible pictures...beautiful, full of life...a glimpse of sea life that I'll not see in person...it must have been a terrific trip and experience. It seems insufficient to say "thank you" but I do.

lprof wrote:...these are simply incredible pictures...beautiful, full of life...a glimpse of sea life that I'll not see in person...it must have been a terrific trip and experience. It seems insufficient to say "thank you" but I do.

Thank you is really enough and I am so glad to share them. When I look at that wall picture it feels kind of unreal that I was down there. My new deep record is now 96ft. But Terese beated me with 99ft But seriously, deeper doesn't have to mean better, there are lots of sealife to see in shallow water. It's more the underwater topography that could be more dramatic.

Great photos, Maggy!! You two are brave.

cypressgirl wrote:Great photos, Maggy!! You two are brave.

I know In November we are taking you with us down there

Thanks Maggy! Great pictures! I will try to add some when I get them on flickr. I am still recovering!
We will leave out some pictures.

sea-nile wrote:Thanks Maggy! Great pictures! I will try to add some when I get them on flickr. I am still recovering!
We will leave out some pictures.

Yes, do that. The more the merrier . And I don't understand what pictures you are talking about leaving out. We went to bed at 9 pm pretty much every night and only drank diet coke right?

Wonderful pictures. What an experience it must have been. Nice that you and Sea Nile can share it.

Linne

Thank you, thank you, Maggy! I just love seeing underwater photos especially when they are as fabulous as yours.

Yes, sea-nile, please add more photos once you have recovered from the trip. I wanna see more!

I wonder where you are going diving next, Maggy .

Pickle wrote:
I wonder where you are going diving next, Maggy .

It will most likely be on STJ on SOTB III in November. I know, too long time until then, but I can't afford more travelling now for a while

Thank you so much everyone, for your nice comments.

Wonderful photos! How cool that you found a toadfish. Thanks for sharing. If you have more, I'd love to see them!