But today I get the chance to do just that, with Che, who knows the system pretty well as he used to work as a guide for Hidden Worlds.
Dos Ojos has turned into a real tourist circus, with people crawling and splashing everywhere. What a contrast with yesterday!
Luckily we're off to a rarely dived downstream passage off the Green room and soon leave all the daylight bound recreational divers behind.
It's a shallow dive following a string of various cenotes, some partially open to the sky, some with just a small chimney through which sunlight shafts pour in, and several dark air chambers.
We surface in one of the cenotes for a quick peek around. A monkey is making wooping sounds somewhere. Bats flap around. We submerge again in silence. The bottom is dark with decomposing leaves and branches. Easily stirred up by our fin kicks.
We pass rooms full of tree roots hanging from the ceiling, giving the whole dive a wild & primitive feeling. The stalactites look ancient, but then, considering their age, that's not very surprising I guess.
I spotted quite a few small (2cm) and large (6cm) cenote shrimps scurrying around or dropping from stalactites, and two kinds of cavern fish that I haven't seen in other cenotes. Nice dive.
