Feb 21 Puerto Morelos. Hostal Humanity

Get up. Skip the apples-and-coffee breakfast (worst breakfast on offer at the hostels I stayed at). Walk to the collectivo stop and go to the port town. FInd out there's no snorkeling and then walk up and down the beach. (several miles). Go back to the hostel and hang out reading and getting something to eat. [email to Carol] My last full day of tropical sun shine. I should be feeling dread or depression or something, but I feel excitement! Aren't I terrible!

[letter to Carol] Some of the interesting people who were here yesterday seem to have vamoosed, so frankly given a choice between snorkeling the reef tomorrow (one of the putative highlights of the Maya Riviera) and coming home early, I'd go with the latter.

Still no reef snorkeling! (Red flag, the international warning sign). Tomorrow is my last chance. I have to do it quick before the flight If the weather permits.


This appears to be the international dock of the port, with barbed wire to make sure you go through customs, etc. when you leave the boat for town. The tall ship was gone the next day.
Tall ship at the puerto of Puerto Morelos. 


I read that the Carribean coast of the Yucatan coast has a red seaweed problem. Sure enough Red seaweed seemed to be piling up.


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