trip report - cenote

My kids will be leaving for college by the time I get our Mexico trip all posted.

After sweating all day at Coba and Tulum we decided to do some swimming at a local cenote.  It was refreshing to say the least - the water was chilly!  It was also a beautiful area.  I mean really beautiful.

When we all finally got brave enough to get in the cold water we swam out to the rocks in the center of the cenote.  This picture is bad but it will give you an idea of the set up.  Cenotes are water systems that run underground.  The rocks we are sitting on in the picture below are actually the collapsed roof of the cave.  This whole water area was underground until the roof collapsed.  There are tunnels and caverns off of this cenote that is why there are a couple of scuba divers in the water.  They were practicing their cave diving.
The kids happy to be out of the sweltering heat of the ruins
Not sure what it is about this picture of Luke but I love it.  How cool is the water?


Remember one of my first trip posts about cliff jumping?  This is the same area where we jumped. Derek was the lucky water chauffeur that got to drag a kid filled life preserver from the entry point of the jump to the stairs out of the cenote.  This reminds me of a camping trip we took and Derek spent a ton of time getting kids fishing poles untangled.  The dads always get the hard, dirty work while the mom giggles behind the camera documenting all the "fun"
Finishing off our cenote swim with big smiles on everyones faces.  This was a great conclusion to an already great day.  
Note to Derek...remove wallet from swim trunks BEFORE diving into a cenote.  When we got into the taxi after our swim Derek passed out wet, soggy bills to all of us so that we could hold them up to the sunny windows to get dry while he spread out the rest on the dashboard.