Isla Mujeres

Isla Mujeres!

As if we hadn't had enough beach in the past few days we decided to take a 2 day trip to Isla Mujeres, the island of women. Sadly there were not as many women as the name would suggest, and the only people frollocking half-naked on the beach were europeans in speedos. yah.

But, apart from that the island is absolutely, yep, you guessed it, amazing. Ok, so I've been using this word a lot lately, but this will probably be the last time I'll be able to do so cuz I dont think we're gonna find beaches as good as these on the rest of our trip. So, amazing it was. Its a tiny little island (and I mean tiny... its about 50 meters thick in the largest point), and its small streets are dotted with little hotels and restaurants. But the best part is the water... its extremely shallow, and you can still stand 100 meters or so out to sea, and the colors are SO blue and SO amazing... ok, I'll stop.

So it was about a 20 mintue ferry ride from cancun. We very inteligently got on the bus to go to the ferry terminal witout knowing where the terminal was... (I blame it on brain damage), so we went back and forth a few times before finally arriving (and of course, doing the customary 30 minutes of walking under the scorching midday sun).

On the island itself we set up camp, tied our hammocks on to our desired palm trees and ate our homemade tuna sandwiches (Mmm). We were prepared for the mosquitoes that night, spreading ourselves with enough mosquito spray to kill a horse (if horses were mosquitoes...) and lighting those little mosquito coils and everything. It only helped marginally and we still died, repeatedly, from bites. But I guess its just the sacrifice we'll have to make if we want to camp...

So the next day we went snorkelling off the south of the island where the water was even more blue and amazing (blah blah...) and there we saw big rays, barracuda, and an assortment of colorful fish. I had bought a mask the day before 2 sizes too small... so now my nose is bruised and probably falling off as I type this.