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Mexico is probably the best place in the world to go cavern diving, with around 30 inland cenotes sites which are often little holes of water in the ground in some cave which you just jump into and explore. This undisturbed fresh water is crystal clear except for where there are weird hazes of salt water in places, which for centuries has become trapped in the fresh water and are known as haloclines. The experience of diving through a halocline is just crazy. As a comparison, open your eyes in a swimming pool with no mask and the fuzziness that you experience is almost as bad as swimming through a halocline with your mask ON! Pretty spooky as for brief periods you just can't see shit through your mask. Even more spooky was half way round the cavern, swimming underwater in the dark with just flashlights, we suddenly run into a sign with the grim reaper painted on it telling us we are going to die if we continue. Fab! But we continued anyway. After having seen a huge tarantula casually crossing the jungle dirt track earlier, we were prepared for anything! |
 Gorilla's were spotted in the jungle |
 After seeing tarantulas, Hero plucks up the courage to enter the jungle |
 Look out for big, big spiders crossing this! |
 Wolverand makes a mean wrestler |
 Presenting WWF's "The Undertaker"... |
 ...and "Pancho the Tequila Slammer"... |
 ...and finally, "Hero the Punani Slayer" |
 Let the wrestling begin! |
 In here is a small pool of water that leads to 2 caverns. Dive in! |
 And here's that small pool of water! |
 One of the other entrances to Chac-Mool |
 The ghostly figure of Wolverand |
 Cavern or no cavern, it's getting Clubflatted |
 The entrance to the cavern gets a little tight |
 Don't bump into them! |
 The Clubflat fin lends a helping, err. fin |
 Hero plays underwater hide and seek |
 Looks like the moon underwater |
 Fancy crawling into here? |
 Nice! See the blurred right-hand side? That's the start of a halocline |
 Walking up little wet steps with this heavy kit is hard work |
 Looking down on Chac-Mools other entrance |
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