Bacalar Lagoon Boat Trip, 22nd Dec.

Bacalar is a very 'comfortable' town. It fits just nicely. It's walkable and easy to find your way around. The mornings are a bit grey, until that is the sun pokes its head out. Then even in December it's toasty warm.
Today I had a boat trip around the lagoon planned. After a nice leisurely morning I made my way to the arranged meeting place on a jetty. The people running the trip were again really pleasant, including the boat skipper, Augustin; a lot like just about everyone in Bacalar.
Besides me there's a Japanese/Canadian mother and her two sons, and an American family. The lagoon is quite narrow but very long. I'd say it was swimmable, because the water is shallow, warm and as blue as anything I've ever seen. It's stunning at eye-level and the shots I've seen from drones are gorgeous.
We had stops at four locations around the lagoon: one more or less in the middle, which was strange in itself because we could stand up in waist-deep (brackish) water.The next stop was a little hard to make out at the water level - the entrance to 'Canal de los Pirates', where there was a semi-derelict building part submerged in the middle. The next I think was 'Cenote (hole) Negro', which is where a shelf in the lagoon's floor drops suddenly from a metre depth to 63 metres. (We weren't allowed to swim.)
The last stop was (I think) at 'Cenote Conchalitos' where we could see the underground river water bubbling out of the shoreline into the lagoon: odd but interesting-ish.
Today could well be the highlight of my stay in Bacalar.Read more