Cozumel from non-dive perspective

We recently returned from a cruise which stopped briefly in Coz.
First time that I have been there since big storm.

Wife and I just hung around the cruise dock area and found the shops
clean, fairly new and everything humming.

My brother, who is not a diver and who had never been to Coz, at my
suggestion took his boys in a cab to a nearby beach to snorkel. While
the snorkeling and beach were great, he was stunned by the devastation
and squalor he saw once he got away from the immediate vicinity of the
cruise ship dock. Talked about it for days.

On a related matter, we also stopped at Grand Cayman. I was amazed by
the crowds and felt sorry for all those folks who would never sit the
beach in front of Divi Tiara * on the Brac, and who would never have a
sense of the real Cayman Islands.


* With a cool one, of course.

** Make that many cool ones.

*** Oh hell, just tie one on.




-HW "Skip" Weldon
Columbia, SC