Our trip started as most of ours here do... Drive through lush green growth and jungle.
Passing occasionally through small pueblos.
We had to park the truck in a pueblo named Chiquila and take a passenger ferry over to Holbox.
Holbox is small. You can walk across it in 20 minutes. On one side is the Gulf of Mexico, on the other side an inlet with mangroves and a wildlife preserve. We stayed at the hotel Faro Viejo right on the beach of the coast.
Swimming with the Whale Sharks was amazing!
We had to take a 90 minute boat ride out to where they were..
W pulled up to an area where we could see the whale sharks fins popping up out of the water...
But there was no way you could have been pre-warned, even seeing the fins, what was in store once you went in the water!!!!
The Sharks were as big as the boat, curious and unafraid of the human swimmers! They eat plankton and have these large gaping mouths used to inhale all the plankton they encounter while swimming... I can tell you there is nothing like seeing a 4000 lb creature with a 6 ft open mouth swimming directly at you!
The girl above actually got smacked in the head with a fin. She said it didn't hurt but it was shocking and jarring for sure!
An experience we will never forget! (and hope to do again!)
When we got home Max and Rosie were happy to see us... we had told the vet to shave Rosie's hair off.... we were shocked to find that our language skills failed us and they thought both dogs were to be shaved. So we are the proud owners of a near naked labrador!
Much Love to All!!
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