Isla Mujeres

Hey life is great in paridise. We have been in Isla now for 25 days and every one has been beautiful hot and sunny. Life on this island is slow paced and relaxing. Absolutely nothing is done fast,not even your beer order. It gets there when it gets there. We went into Cancun on a three day trip to see some Mayan ruins. The first one we saw was Ex'balam. It was discovered about nine years ago.The ruins themselves are fasinating and you are left with a feeling of awe when you climb up to the top of the pyrimid. The next place on our tour was a town called Valladolid pronounced [bahiadoleed]'there is this fantastic cenote right in the middle the town and on a hot day it is a very refreshing swim. On the next morning we did Chechen Itza and man that place is huge. It is acres upon acres of sites. The most intersting of them to myself was the sports arena. The walls have skulls carved on on side of the building and on the inside there are two stone hoops about halfway down the court. on either end of this court are high veiwing areas that to me looked like a person of high standing would watch from. After that we drove south east to a ruin called Coba and swam in three underground cenotes. This was so cool you had to go down what looked like a stone well,climb this spiral staircase until you got to the cavern below. And there it was crystal clear blue water with stalagmites and stalagtites, roots growing through the ceiling and small catfish that swam from some underground river. While you swim down there the sounds of the water lapping on the sides of the cavern have an earrie resonance. And then it's broken by the splash of Gilbert diving off of the dive platform ten meters up into eighty feet of water. We wandered our way back up to the Mayan Rivaira past Tolume,Akumel and back to Cancun.Now we are waiting for some parts to come in from the US so we can continue to the island of Cozemal. So I will sign off now and drink my cold beer that finally arrived. Bye for now from the crew of the Endorfin.