From Sunrise to Sunset, A Perfect Day

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Of all the days on the Isle of Cozumel, our third day was my favorite, I think. Actually it started on the second day when we decided what we wanted to do on the third, and that would require renting a car. Now, on the Isle of Cozumel, there is no shortage of makes, models, and deals to be made when it comes to renting a car, so basically the window to a world of possibilities was wide open. So, when all the searching and dealing was done, Vicky and I were going to be cruising around Cozumel in a Mexican Ferrari!? You'll just have to see the pictures. Oh yes, when the final bargain was done, we paid $10.00 for 24 hours, plus we had to refill the tank prior to returning the ride.

Our plan was to drive to the eastern shore of the island to watch and photograph the coming of the sun at 0624hrs that morning. Working backward from that time, allowing for travel time, breakfast time, those extra few minutes in the morning required by the better half of our team for primping, we calculated wake up time would be 0500hrs as it worked out. We had room service bring up breakfast, which was one of those many little treats of our trip, and sipped our coffee and ate our scrabbled eggs as we got ready to go. Our timing was perfect and a place was quickly found to pull over to park and set up my camera. Let's just say it was grand!

After I felt there were no more sunrise scenes to catch and release, we drove north along the coast highway, stopping here and there and gathering more pictures. For most of the the day, more or less, we had the beaches to ourselves.
About midway along the coast we stopped at an overlook area and while there, observed a young couple walking hand and hand along the beach. "How sweet", we thought. We did meet them and they introduced themselves as Brian and Cat.  They volunteered to take a picture of me and Vicky and it turned out to be one of our favorite shots! So now, thanks to Brian, Vicky and I have a picture of the two of us on one of those very special days spent together.

By mid afternoon we were back at the resort and thinking, "now what?" Vicky chose a nap, and I went down for a dip in the pool and a chance to visit with some people we had met. While I was kicking back, out from one of the restaurants came a line of about 10 or 12 young chef types with their white stove pipe hats, all carrying a tray in one hand of something, and offering what they had on the trays to all the guests....and me without my camera. What a sight! Well, what they had was the most amazing ice cream bars I had ever eaten. Vicky is coming close to forgiving me for not bringing one up for her, I think.

After Vicky woke, we got cleaned up and came down for a buffet dinner on the terrace, and watched the same sun we watched come up, go down. Any nearer to a perfect day, and it would be off by a little.

Our evening ended with live entertainment out on the open terrace. There were eight dancers who performed for more than an hour and made nine costume changes without the show ever stopping. I don't ever remember the Holiday Inn providing that kind of entertainment.

So as the show ended, it was back to the room for some quality jacuzzi time.....Hey! We were on "Mexican time"

Here is the link to some of the pictures taken that day. As usual, please feel free to leave coments
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tagalongphotography/sets/72157625841714124/