Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A dark place

Having dried inside-out overnight, I was about to turn my wetsuit right again this morning when my eyes detected some movement in the suit. As I carefully checked, out came some weird but innocent looking insect. Too small. Still suspicious, I slowly bent some more neoprene, thereby revealing the actual alert tripping culprit: a small scorpion (2cm not counting its bent up tail). Welcome to Mexico!

Pickup truck fully loaded with three sets of gear & doubles, Richie, Gosia & I agreed to pay Jailhouse a visit, Richie absolutely wanting to show us the Swiss Syphon, despite my stated reluctance for dark places. I never felt at ease in Sistema Naranjal and suppose I never will, its stained walls absorb all light and extrude a somber mood.


With three Ts, a jump and another T it's a rather complex left-right-right-left-right path line to get to the sub-halocline Swiss Syphon, but the salt water passages there are quite something to behold indeed.

On the way back from the cenote, Richie spotted Gunni sitting in a roadside café, so of course I jumped out of the truck to greet my former boss of Aktun Dive Center, now fully into kite board surfing.