The So Called “Jungle Tour”

Day: 210

So I headed over to the tour desk at the hotel today to look into doing something different today.

Jungle Tour? That sounds interesting. Should be fun and exciting.

Without even bothering to get the details of what I would be doing, I signed up. I wandered the beach talking to some Australian girls waiting the half an hour until I had to be at the Marina to get on my tour.

When I got to the desk at the tour office they had me start filling out liability releases and telling me: “Everything will get soaked.”

Wait a minute? I thought we were just going to the Jungle? The jungle doesn’t normally consist of getting soaked. Unless, of course, it’s raining. Which it wasn’t. The “soaked” fact made me have to leave my camera behind (If you knew me, you’d know I am almost never without a camera, and any trip without one would make me sad). Plus I wasn’t going to be able to get pictures for the AE site, which was a real bummer.

Anyways; they passed out life jackets, snorkels, masks and fins; I was still slightly confused. But being a man of adventure I went with it. Snorkeling is always good time, and even if I wasn’t seeing Maya Temples like I thought, it couldn’t turn out too bad…. Could it?

I was right! It wasn't bad at all! In fact it was a great day anyways, they stuck us on these little boats (the only picture I could get...) and we raced around the lagoon, bouncing over choppy seas for about 30 minutes until we got to this coral reef. The guides tied up our little boats and sent us off exploring the reef!

After a while of seeing an assortment of fish, stingrays, coral and beautiful blue water, we got to get back on our motorcycle-like boats and ride back to the marina. My guides (Ruben and Guillermo) took a picture with me, so I’d have something to post with this story and I was on my way back to the beach. A smile from ear to ear.

Afternoon turned out quite spectacular anyways, but you will have to wait a few more days to see an actually jungle. (I Promise to find it here!)

During the evening/night I headed off to another Music thumping club to go to a White Party (like the Green Party, without the politics). I may not be the first to say this, but I my have to take it easy on the drinking for a few days…. (famous last words.)

A side note: Some of the writing I am putting up here is the same as the AE site, but since mine is going to continue and that site will only be up a couple of months, I want it here also.