Puerto Morelos Mayan Riviera

[12swinger]

Down her for a couple weeks thought I’d share some random pics

 

[greymouser7]

Love the third pic, moved away from that.

First pic is available every day here.

Just served the fourth pic Monday to some visiting guests .

Thank GOD for the good times.

Hope you enjoy yourselves. If you leave a cruise ship be careful, taxi drivers rip you off.

 

[12swinger]

Lion fish tacos cooked in wood fired oven
The coconut was wood fired also with mussels clams shrimps fish in a crazy good sauce.
Shouldn’t post a pic of my wife but that water

 

[12swinger]

I don’t do cruise ships I ran a deep sea fishing boat for a little over a year and I’m not ready for shuffleboard.
I rent a car and burn it up

 

[greymouser7]

Lion fish tacos cooked in wood fired oven
The coconut was wood fired also with mussels clams shrimps fish in a crazy good sauce.
Shouldn’t post a pic of my wife but that water
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I don’t understand how the water changes colors like that in the Caribbean but after driving to Key West, & sailing & swimming the Caribbean I can tell you it is enchanting, beautiful. The Gulf Stream current is warmer often than the beach water in the sun. Wonderful stuff.

 

[4spdragtop]

Beautiful pics! Lion fish, arent they an invasive species? Didnt know u can eat them.

 

[12swinger]

Beautiful pics! Lion fish, arent they an invasive species? Didnt know u can eat them.

Poisonous I’ve heard, they eat everything. The meats not, I hope. Though I think I had an out of body experience after that meal.
Not really from the Caribbean, from the South Pacific. They are here now. Their delicious, flaky almost buttery.
The barrier reef off the coast stretches around 600 miles, and an abundance of sea creatures to eat.

 

[oldkimmer]

Awesome pics. Hope ur having a good time. Kim

 

[12swinger]

Awesome pics. Hope ur having a good time. Kim

Yes it’s been a great experience, and still much more on the agenda, like visiting some Mayan ruins. Tulum is a bit over an hour down the road, and a day trip, and the other direction around Cancun I want to jump on the express ferry and island hop to Isla Mujeres for a day, and catch the sunset.
The people so far have been great here, super laid back, especially in Puerto Morelos a drinking village with a fishing problem.

 

[12swinger]

Drove about an hour to Tulum spectacular

 

[Keith Mopar]

That's a fabulous little town, we stay at a resort and walk down there for breakfast on the beach and eat at a restaurant called Pelicans. I recognized the picture of the leaning light house.

 

[Bad Sport]

a drinking village with a fishing problem.

That sounds awful, lol. Enjoy.

 

[12swinger]

Good morning mopar buddy’s
No great sunsets here they are over the jungle
Sunrise is a different thing.

 

[12swinger]

Base camp today
Lunch afterwards
There jumping in front of us with dive gear on, I’m gonna wait for a calmer morning or day
Snook fish Mojo de ajo and grilled, and the other half as my wife likes is fried and tartar sauce.

 

[12swinger]

Craft brewery 5 minutes down the road
Great beer
Pescadores amazing ipa and a super pale ale.

 

[pishta]

Damn that makes So. Cal residents jealous! Spent a week each in Mazatlan, Cabo and San Felipe (before the hotels were built) Tide would go out almost a mile where you could walk about the rocks and catch octopus or crabs. The tide came in just as fast so if you saw water rising, you had to stop looking and start waking..fast..Bahamas water was that color too. How? Philippines water: we didnt have a chance to see it shallow but it was warm and super salinated, get out and you'd air dry looking like a sugar cookie!

 

[12swinger]

Rained briefly pretty wavy, from the earthquakes in Puerto Rico.

 

[12swinger]

Took the not so high speed ferry to Isla Mujeres
Got the necessities.

 

[R4Sedan]

Nice,Pic's have fun.

 

[12swinger]

We must be the only ones jamming as people are dancing around our little Bose revolve speaker on the beach.

 

[12swinger]

Could have been a worse day

 

[12swinger]

Kind of burnt up from yesterday
So put off diving till tomorrow.
Great breakfast to start our day.

 

[12swinger]

This area of Mexico was only recently built up 50 years ago, so the Yucatán peninsula is mostly recent construction.
The Mayans have been here since before A.D
There’s around 12,000 ecological sights.
A lawyer from New York named Stevens around 1850 started a project to preserve this area and get the funding from Washington for it.
I saw some of his drawings as photography wasn’t happening. There exactly the same in Tulum.
I’d like to see Coba but I’ll probably save it for next year.

 

[12swinger]

My birthday dinner yesterday
Started with a Mojito
Chipotle duck enchiladas with stir fry asparagus
Diane is having a lobster and steak special with mash taters and asparagus
We split a cauliflower soup with shrimp
Son of a ***** this place rocks
John Grays kitchen
He was the head chef at the Ritz Carlton in Cancun
Where he made a place called the Club Grille famous
Started this place in 2002
He decamped in 2013 and is the executive chef at the Hilton Worldwide in Panama.
Still consults on the menu and what’s available fresh as far as seafood and produce.

 

[bobscuda67]

That looks fun!