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| -hh... |
 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:25 am |
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Mrs is thinking about going to see some Mayan pyramids. Probably get
some dives in also.
Any particular suggestions for preferred countries & specific locales?
(Belize, Honduras, Mexico, other)
-hh |
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| JOF... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:50 am |
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On Sep 30, 6:25 am, -hh <recscuba_goo... at (no spam) huntzinger.com> wrote:
Quote: Mrs is thinking about going to see some Mayan pyramids. Probably get
some dives in also.
Any particular suggestions for preferred countries & specific locales?
(Belize, Honduras, Mexico, other)
-hh
Hi Hugh,
If you're staying near Coz make sure you do a day trip to Coba. It's a
fairly large area with a good number of Mayan structures that have
been cleaned up to some extent. There's a big pyramid that you still
can climb, unlike the one at Chichen Itza, which has apparently been
closed to the public. It's something like 300' high and looks like a
mile when you're looking down from the top. It's a steep climb so be
ready for a little vertigo on the down trip. They have a rope for the
weak-kneed amongst us. My pride wouldn't let me use it but I sure
would have liked to hold on. Lots of folks bum their way down.
They provide guided tours free of charge if you want. I found it
interesting as the fellow who guided our group spoke great English and
gave a very articulate description of the shifts in power in the area
over the centuries and how the cities and road system evolved. You can
even see a chunk of the original raised stone highway that still
exists under the jungle trees. You can easily spend a half day there.
We went on a Thomas Moore Travel day trip in a modern air conditioned
coach. In the afternoon, after having a nice lunch at a roadside
restaurant, we visited an underground cenote for a swim, then went on
to walk through a dry cave. We went in in daylight and it was dark
when we exited but I have no idea how long it was.
All in all it was a good day, well worth the $75 or whatever it was
exactly.
JF |
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| Dillon Pyron... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:46 pm |
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[Default] Thus spake -hh <recscuba_google at (no spam) huntzinger.com>:
Quote: Mrs is thinking about going to see some Mayan pyramids. Probably get
some dives in also.
Any particular suggestions for preferred countries & specific locales?
(Belize, Honduras, Mexico, other)
-hh
Ping me.
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| bullshark... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:42 am |
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On Oct 2, 9:50 am, JOF <jofran... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: All in all it was a good day, well worth the $75 or whatever it was
exactly.
All well and good frannie, but he asked for *Central* America, not
North America, of which Mexico is a part. Don't feel bad though,
nobody else seems know the diff except maybe Greg who suggested Belize
in the end.
Central America start with Guatemala and ends with Panama.
I still have a YS-40a strobe sitting here. Still doesn't work. Think
batteries would help? Can I throw it out know? Is there a Canadian
landfill that will take it?
safe diving,
bullshark |
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| bullshark... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:44 am |
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On Sep 30, 10:11 pm, Greg Mossman <moss... at (no spam) qnet.com> wrote:
Quote: On the other hand, I can recommend a local "expert" for Belize, our
own chilly. She should be back in a few more days and I can pass your
message on to her. |
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| JOF... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:50 am |
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On Oct 4, 4:42 pm, bullshark <bullsh... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On Oct 2, 9:50 am, JOF <jofran... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
All in all it was a good day, well worth the $75 or whatever it was
exactly.
All well and good frannie, but he asked for *Central* America, not
North America, of which Mexico is a part. Don't feel bad though,
nobody else seems know the diff except maybe Greg who suggested Belize
in the end.
Central America start with Guatemala and ends with Panama.
I still have a YS-40a strobe sitting here. Still doesn't work. Think
batteries would help? Can I throw it out know? Is there a Canadian
landfill that will take it?
safe diving,
bullshark
I only read his first post that included Mexico and Mayan pyramids.
Last time I looked the Yucatan was in Mexico and was a great place for
checking out Mayan stuff.
And I doubt the years have healed the strobe. Give it a simple
funeral.
JF |
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| bullshark... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:42 am |
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On Sep 30, 10:11 pm, Greg Mossman <moss... at (no spam) qnet.com> wrote:
Quote: On the other hand, I can recommend a local "expert" for Belize, our
own chilly. She should be back in a few more days and I can pass your
message on to her.
I've never read of her going anywhere except Ambergris Cay? The diving
is not very good there, and trips to the good stuff (Turneffe,
Lighthouse, Halfmoon, glovers etc) were on the order of $2-300 pp and
required a postdive kidney transplant unless the seas are dead
flat...Its ~35 miles of open ocean to Turneffe - Pray the boat has
shade...
From Belize though, you can go see a real, active archeological site:
the Mayan City Tikal, which makes those other places look pale by
comparison. Its a short flight and another passport stamp (Guatemala).
This is the superbowl of accessible Mayan digs:
http://www.belizex.com/tikal.htm.
Note to OP: If you have electric lights then you probably know
Honduras is a bad idea right now. Costa Rica is a blast, with clean
safe water everywhere, jungle rainforest canopy zipline tours that
take all-day to finish. Beautiful place with mountains, oceans more
teachers than police and 100% medical coverage for everyone, even
tourists. No Mayans but there are other native ruins. Not a whole
lotta diving except on the pacific side in the Northwest. This place
is on my radar but haven't been there:
http://www.ocotaldiving.com/
http://www.ocotaldiving.com/diving_sites/diving_sites_en.htm
The diving may be anything from crap to un-freaking believable,
according to a Spanish ambassador I met while diving in Cocos aboard
the decrepit Okeanos Aggressor. He lived in Costa Rica for many years
and seemed to know what he was doing when diving. Avid photographer
with an impressive portfolio of pictures...His comments related to
diving, not the resort...
safe diving,
bullshark
safe diving,
bullshark |
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| -hh... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:00 pm |
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Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpy... at (no spam) austin.rr.com> wrote:
Quote: [Default] Thus spake -hh <recscuba_goo... at (no spam) huntzinger.com>:
Mrs is thinking about going to see some Mayan pyramids. Probably get
some dives in also.
Any particular suggestions for preferred countries & specific locales?
(Belize, Honduras, Mexico, other)
-hh
Ping me.
OBE at this point. Took another look at the schedules and realized
that it was too close to our annual Brac trip to put Mrs. on a beach
to catch up on reading. Looking instead now at German Christmas
markets...local airfare is under $500/pp-RT before taxes, which is a
reasonably good deal.
-hh |
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| Greg Mossman... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:17 am |
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On Oct 4, 2:42 pm, bullshark <bullsh... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On Sep 30, 10:11 pm, Greg Mossman <moss... at (no spam) qnet.com> wrote:
On the other hand, I can recommend a local "expert" for Belize, our
own chilly. She should be back in a few more days and I can pass your
message on to her.
I've never read of her going anywhere except Ambergris Cay? The diving
is not very good there, and trips to the good stuff (Turneffe,
Lighthouse, Halfmoon, glovers etc) were on the order of $2-300 pp and
required a postdive kidney transplant unless the seas are dead
flat...Its ~35 miles of open ocean to Turneffe - Pray the boat has
shade...
She's traveled to other parts of the country, that I know for sure.
But you're right, I probably have more dives on the atolls than she
does merely from a week on the Nekton Pilot. On the other hand, few
can match her experience in transiting Belize City's airport and she
has loads of info on Ambergris Caye which is the biggest tourist trap,
er, I mean tourist destination in the country thanks to reality TV and
mucho expats. I didn't care for the two dives I did on Ambergris, but
to be fair, it was during some big winds and the resultant huge swells
and surge kicked up lots of sand (at 60 feet!) and trashed the viz.
Quote: Note to OP: If you have electric lights then you probably know
Honduras is a bad idea right now. Costa Rica is a blast, with clean
safe water everywhere, jungle rainforest canopy zipline tours that
take all-day to finish. Beautiful place with mountains, oceans more
teachers than police and 100% medical coverage for everyone, even
tourists. No Mayans but there are other native ruins. Not a whole
lotta diving except on the pacific side in the Northwest. This place
is on my radar but haven't been there:http://www.ocotaldiving.com/http://www.ocotaldiving.com/diving_sites/diving_sites_en.htm
My LDS used to do an almost annual trip there, so I've benefited from
plenty of second-hand experience. I've strongly considered it several
times and would strongly consider it again, maybe I'll even go one
day. It's supposed to be great if you like pelagics, not so great if
you require good viz. The price is right. And Costa Rica has
monkeys. I love monkeys. |
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| Dillon Pyron... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:03 pm |
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[Default] Thus spake bullshark <bullshark at (no spam) gmail.com>:
Quote: On Sep 30, 10:11 pm, Greg Mossman <moss... at (no spam) qnet.com> wrote:
On the other hand, I can recommend a local "expert" for Belize, our
own chilly. She should be back in a few more days and I can pass your
message on to her.
I've never read of her going anywhere except Ambergris Cay? The diving
is not very good there, and trips to the good stuff (Turneffe,
Lighthouse, Halfmoon, glovers etc) were on the order of $2-300 pp and
Two dollars to three hundred dollars? Wow, huge fucking price range!
Quote: required a postdive kidney transplant unless the seas are dead
flat...Its ~35 miles of open ocean to Turneffe - Pray the boat has
shade...
Hey, I've raced karts and Formula 500. I don't have kidneys. Besides,
all kidneys do are take the alcohol out of the beer, so when you
refill the bottles, you aren't really returning what you rented.
Quote:
From Belize though, you can go see a real, active archeological site:
the Mayan City Tikal, which makes those other places look pale by
comparison. Its a short flight and another passport stamp (Guatemala).
This is the superbowl of accessible Mayan digs:
http://www.belizex.com/tikal.htm.
Note to OP: If you have electric lights then you probably know
Honduras is a bad idea right now. Costa Rica is a blast, with clean
safe water everywhere, jungle rainforest canopy zipline tours that
take all-day to finish. Beautiful place with mountains, oceans more
teachers than police and 100% medical coverage for everyone, even
tourists. No Mayans but there are other native ruins. Not a whole
lotta diving except on the pacific side in the Northwest. This place
is on my radar but haven't been there:
http://www.ocotaldiving.com/
http://www.ocotaldiving.com/diving_sites/diving_sites_en.htm
The diving may be anything from crap to un-freaking believable,
according to a Spanish ambassador I met while diving in Cocos aboard
the decrepit Okeanos Aggressor. He lived in Costa Rica for many years
and seemed to know what he was doing when diving. Avid photographer
with an impressive portfolio of pictures...His comments related to
diving, not the resort...
safe diving,
bullshark
safe diving,
bullshark
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:07 am |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:44 am |
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I love monkeys.
We understand your voting habits now...
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I never voted for Bush.
http://www.bushorchimp.com/
http://www.aquilaarts.com/bushmonkey.html |
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