Monday, January 26, 2004

posted by: copernicus on 1/26/2004 01:49:00 PM
Puerto Aventuras Vol. 2

"Tuesday Morning, the ...20th?

I just had a breakfast of fresh pineapple (my favorite) and am now on the beach. it's kind of fun sitting here people-watching. People-watching is always fun, it's like conducting your own sociology experiment. Every group that walks by is speaking a different language, and a young family with 4 little girls wearing arm floaties is playing in the surf and giggling like only little kids can.

There is nothing like the smell of a tropical ocean. The sun is on my face, my toes are in the sand and there is an unlimited supply of 80 cent Mexican beer.
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Tuesday, now about 5 or 6 p.m.

I'm sitting on my deck with my feet on the rail, watching the palm trees sway in the breeze and the waves roll in from the Gulf. It is getting cloudier as dark approaches, but it is still in the low 80's and not very humid. The gang should be back from Xel-ha soon, and it will be time for dinner. Tomorrow we scuba dive the reef-wall in Cozumel. It is a sheer cliff of coral that drops down about 75 feet. There should be lots of bright fluorescent fish and maybe a shark or two if we're lucky, but it's Thursday's dives that I'm really excited about.

We are going to dive the Chac-Mool Cenote (cenote is Mayan for sinkhole), which was once an underground limestone cave system that flooded during the last Ice-Age. Now it is full of completely clear water, no fish, no sand, no little things floating around, just water so clear it is invisible. Really, you can't see the water when you're in it. If you took a picture of a diver in the cenote it would look like he was levitating in a beautiful cave full of limestone formations of stalactites and stalagmites (I never remember which grow up and which grow down). Every now and then there will be an opening in the roof of the cave where shafts of sunlight illuminate the water. We have an underwater camera, and we will do our best to take lots of pictures, and eventually I hope to get them posted on my blog.
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The sun has finally set (actually the Earth has rotated far enough that the Yucatan Peninsula is no longer in the Sun's line of sight), and the lights of the lagoon and the marina are beginning to come on 7 stories below. They're back now, time to go to dinner.
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RANDOM QUOTE OF THE DAY

"..and as I feel the Moon rise,
a time that I feel is the right time,
here in our sleepyhouse..."
-Blind Melon-

And yes it is the right time. I'm back in my favorite spot on the porch, feet on the railing listening to the surf and looking into the blackness. I've always been a beer guy (microbrews preferably) and never put much stock into frozen drinks, but they are damn good when it's hot and you're in the tropics. I went downstairs for dinner and was handed a Bahama Mama and it was delicious...and nutritious. It had ice, rum, fresh coconut milk, fresh strawberries, fresh bananas and something else that I can't remember after drinking 6 of them.

I do remember Scott getting a tattoo on the beach, and me buying a necklace made from chunks of Tiger's Eye for 70 pesos. I have also continued my reputation as a seafood junky by eating fish, rice and veggies every night since we've been here. I love all types of seafood. I was raised on the ocean, and I've always felt it was my home. One of my homes anyway. I have alot of homes. And alot of families. And a lot of love to give.

I don't know, I'm a little drunk, so maybe I'm saying more than I should, but...I've only met a few truly kindred, fascinating girls in my life, and in most cases they were either already with someone or lived on the other end of the country. Or both.

I want that girl, whomever and whatever she may be, here with me right now, so I can fall asleep with her in my arms, drifting off to the smell of her hair, and waking up next to her sleepy smile in the morning.

Tonight I just have my pillow and the smell of the ocean.

Goodnight, my love, wherever you are."

More later.
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