I was looking for a bathroom while on the
bike a couple days ago and stopped in at the public Hospital to see if
I could use theirs.
It looks better on the outside than it is
on the inside. Despite the lack of cleanliness they sure had interesting
tile on the floors
I mentioned that there is a huge building
with a Chedraui supermarket in one end of it. At the other end is a mall
with a multi-screen cinema upstairs. This is the spiral staircase to the
cinema.
When I got to the waterfront I was
struck by the similarities and differences between this USCG cutter and
the yacht behind them. Note the helicopters and radar domes.
Yesterday was almost sensory and imagination
overload. I've mentioned the Blue Angel Dive Shop as a beach dive destination
from Villa Blanca but I don't think I've ever shown it to you.
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On the Left you'll see a shallow inlet to
the wading pool. This is a very comfortable way to leave the sea. The water
at the main entrance is maybe waist deep. The dock on the Right is where
the dive boats tie up to pick up and off load divers and their gear.
I'm not terrified of heights but I do tend
to pay attention to what I'm doing when up high without a railing. This
panorama is a little chopped up because I was photographing it while laying
on my stomach, hanging out over the corner of the hotel roof, by that drain
pipe, and shooting one handed. (the other hand was locked onto another
pipe)
Glad to get down.
The second part of today's sensory
overload started at sun down.
Some friends from Blue Angel asked me to
join them on a night dive last night and I went. We drifted in a fairly
strong current from Villa Blanca to Blue Angel. There are night feeders
and day feeders. You'd think crabs could defend themselves during the day
but this is the first one I've seen underwater. And THEN, they hide behind
a 'Sea Urchin'.
This 'Yellow Ray' seems to be at home day
or night.
And now the prize of the evening. The possibility
of finding one of these guys was the main reason I went.
I really should have had a video camera
to let you see all the contortions and colors used to evade my light.
And that's all that's fit to show after an hour underwater.
Well, OK. Here is kind of what it looks like
down there after dark. I've edited the hell out of this to try to show
'Something'. I navigate by occasionally surfacing and getting my bearings
from the street lights, etc. The water is only about 20' deep along here.
