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OUR AKUMAL ADVENTURE, PART 6
Saturday, 6/24/00, Day “7”
Tossed and turned a bit last night, finally got up at 6:11 a.m. Usual trip to the balcony to watch the day brighten and the sea turn turquoise and update my notes. Wrote Michael’s card, now I needed some stamps.
We sauntered off to breakfast at 7:25. I had a fried egg, some of that awful bacon, and some of those tasty little quesadillas. I’m thinking I’m going to turn into a quesadilla before we leave here. Steve had an omelette and a little bacon. (It really is yucky, greasy stuff.)
We went back to the room to change for the beach and hit our palapa about 9. I went to check how much stamps were (6 pesos) and get another information sheet from the front desk, since I seemed to have misplaced the one we got at check-in. Then went back to the room for the card and money, back to the gift shop for the stamps, then to the front desk. They don’t have a mail drop, so just handed the card to the nice young man at the desk. (I wish I had written down his name. He was there most days and was a most pleasant person.)
On the way back, I stopped for a cold glass of water at the restaurant. It is hot today! Still no towels (they finally showed up at 10!). I went back to the room for our water bottles, then back to my lounge chair and sat panting for a minute. The day’s barely started and I’m already worn out!
Went snorkeling and took fish pictures, including a small (about 2 feet) grouper. I finished the film in the camera and brought it back to the palapa. Somewhere in here there were a couple of cold cervezas.
So, I go snorkeling again, this time straight out from our palapa (we frequented the one just at the end of the condo pool). About 75 yards out, in 8 to 10 feet of water, I came upon Fish Group C. Suddenly, there were hundreds of fish! There were at least three distinct schools of grunts, each stationed over a large redbeard sponge. Moving between the schools were French grunts, doctorfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, banded butterfly fish, at least one rainbow parrotfish, and damsel fish. When I first saw them, I said “My God, look at all the fish!” (Yes, you can talk into your snorkel.) Of course, I didn’t have the camera…
Two of the grunts detached themselves from the first school and swam toward me, perhaps to check me out. Apparently satisfied, they returned to their group. At no time in all the times I visited Fish Group C did the grunts change schools. The other fish swam beneath and around them, going back and forth, but the grunts stayed in their respective groups. I hung there above the first school, in awe at the number of fish in one place.
When I came back to shore to tell Steve of my wonderful find, I was coughing and my nose was running. Oh, s**t, I’ve caught Steve’s cold. I am NOT amused. I went back to the room and found out that, fortunately, I had packed some Triaminicin. After taking one of those and shooting some Dristan spray up my nose, I felt sufficiently better to go take pics of the fish I’d found. I schooled with them for a while, then came back to dry off and have another beer. (Fish photos are at http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=980325&a=7197496.)
In the afternoon, we met John and Sylvia Brodman, from Washington, DC, at the bar. They knew Bob and have really been wanting to buy a condo in the area for the past 3 years. They were very pleasant people, also.
Late in the afternoon, I took our towels up to change them so we’d have fresh ones in the morning without having to wait for the towel arrival (which was rather erratic). Instead of our regular blue ones, they gave me yellow towels. When I got back to the palapa, I joked with Steve that now we’d have to speak Italian!
When we went up to the room to get ready for dinner, I discovered the strap on my dive watch was split and about to come apart. Rats! When we had arrived, we discovered Steve’s dive watch had quit and needed a new battery, now mine was unusable. Oh, well, no problema.
Dinner was pretty good. I grazed lightly, but Steve said the pork was really good. We then walked over to our usual table at the Akumal bar, for another delightful evening of Gaby and Johnny’s musical stylings. Brian, one of the “animation team” I mentioned earlier, conducted a trivia contest. He would ask a question, and the person who had (or thought they had) the answer would raise their hand and shout, “Tequila!” Points were awarded for the correct answers, the winner getting a bottle of tequila. I got the first question, which was the name of the resort, then got beaten to the punch on the rest of them. The last question was whose birthday is August 31 that calls for big parties all over Cancun. Several people tried, including me, but no one got it. It turned out to be a trick question—it was Brian’s birthday!
I really didn’t feel very well, but I had a good time. Steve, of course, was now starting to feel better. We went to bed with me hoping this dratted cold would disappear overnight. No such luck…
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